Back to normal!
That is the story here in the land of Joe. After being gone with the horrible flu for about ten days I am back at school and nothing has changed. I had a nice full day today and several are on the plate for the next few weeks. Come to think of it, there will be no "light" days until I graduate. I gave a presentation on artificial intelligence today with Ryan, and we used a picture of me and Mr. T created on a computer as an example of the wonders of computers. Mr. T was wearing a sombrero and looking at me. I was smiling (it was my freshman picture from BSC). Noone laughed as much as we thought they would, except us. We laughed. We almost used a music clip from the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" because it had a robot voice, but we did not go that far. Unfortunately.
Plus I have resolved my motivation issues with school. Whenever I think "you graduate in three weeks, Joe. Why work?" another part of me now says "what's wrong, sissy-Joe-can't-do-any-work-man? Are you going to cry? Is it too hard for you? Awwwww..." I then sometimes actually start fighting with myself in what turns out to be some mild slapping between my two hands. Then I stop becasue people stare when you talk to yourself in a threatening manner and then hit yourself. But, problem solved!
I'm off to study. Tomorrow I have a computer science test... the quest continues!

Dr. Bronner quote of the day: Essene, Chinese and other birth control methods must reduce birth or Easter Isle type overpopulation destroys God's Spaceship Earth!

I hope everyone is well!
Peace,
Joe

It worked! Now I have tried to center it. (Hence the post)
CYA!

Hallo. I am much less of "the sick" now and will be going back to school tomorrow to finish up the year. As of yesterday it was exactly one month until I graduate college. May 24th, she is a'comin' soon.
Nothing really exciting happening except that I am NOT running a fever and my liver has begun the slow but steady recovery process from all the damn fever reducers and such.
I have tried to add a scrolling marquee to below the links. I don't know if it works or why it should be there, but I must do something with the knowledge I am garnering from my intro to computer science class, no?
I hope everyone is well!
Peace,
Joe

Hallo.
Here are some numbers for you: 101,102,103...
THOSE are the temperatures my body has seemed to think are the best to be the last six days. Geez. Who knew the bodies could be so dumb sometimes.
Today I am posting from home on the first day I can sit up on my own for more than no seconds. The severe flu came and killed the easter bunny and tried to get me and my parents, too. My body isn't even supposed to be able to run a fever. Ha! Fooled him!
But anyway, I was posting becasue I am happy at the nice day and celebrated with a walk from the bed down to the computer. Tonight I may even try to go to my Phi Beta Kappa initiation. I had to miss Honors Day yesterday, but the Buddhist side of me says thats good.
I suppose I have no real stories, though. Last night I had a dream that Nick and I were crop dusters with huge cartoon eyes that used chocolate chips as the pesticide. I guess it could've been the Codiene cough medicine. Maybe.
I'm off to more of the sleepin'.
I hope everyone is well.
Peace,
Joe

Two things today:
1) Tonight I watched Michael Jordan play his last game. 15 points in about 28 minutes, with one nice dunk. The amazing part was the atmosphere of the fans, fellow players, coaches, even the officials. It was truly an awesome thing.

2) More importantly, I went to Tuscaloosa with my Dad today to see my brother Nick get some awards from his ROTC corps. His was named most Outstanding Freshman Cadet and awarded a $1,000.00 scholarship for showing excellence in leadership and academics. I am so proud of him. It was both wonderful and scary to see him in his uniform; my little brother is in the Army. Be careful, stoop-o.

I'd be more detailed, but I have to run to work. Nothing says I won't update there, though.

I hope everyone is well.
Peace,
Joe

This post is to see if some of my changes have worked. Apparently it only updates if I post.
Also, this.

So bored. Oh wait! I am off! Now I can go do super fun things like.... ummmm... sleep. Yes, I will sleep.

Also, I would like to extend my condolences to Da Peeg for Kate's sickness.
Kate is his car.

And yes, we are having slow business tonight.

Oh, and another few things. This week I recieved two interesting letters in the mail. One was from Oxford, accepting me to their masters program in Experimental Psychology. That was very nice. The other was a rejection letter from Emory. This is funny becasue they made me an offer a long time ago and I respectfully declined. So I guess they decided to not accept me after they accepted me and then I didn't accept them. Academia is a funny place. That's it.
Peace,
Joe

It's saturday and I be all up in tha' Cella.
I spent last night at home hanging out with my parents and Nick, and that was very nice. More my parents than Nick, because he went to a concert for most of the day. Mama and Daddy and I went to Los Mex and then bought the Harry Potter video and watched it. Rocky jumped on Ma. All in all it was quite the relaxing evening. I got to hang out with my grandparents for awhile, too. My grandad's beard has been trimmed, bringing it from super Santa Claus to just plain santa claus. Sometimes I can't believe that grandma is the age she really is. If she were on a sitcom, she'd be "the spunky old lady." I slept alot. So nothing really exciting, but I wanted to update. Here's my Dr. Bronner's quote:

"SPACESHIP EARTH!!!"

Also, I have been learning a littel HTML in the computer science, and I tried to add links to Stacy's site and Alabama's site. I don't know when they process those changes, but they should be there soon if I did it right.
I hope everyone is well!

Peace,
Joe

Ok, so I promise that I thought of it independently, but here is a page about Mr. T and the Buddha. And Mr. T is commsioned by Buddha to fight a Monkey! WHAT A FRIEKIN BEAUTIFULLY PERFECT THING!!!!!!! I mean, really. My page is all about this, without the whole fighting a monkey bit. Go see it. SEE IT!!!!

I hope everyone is well,

Peace,
Joe

Three things:

ONE: Supa Congratulations to Geoff and Stacy on setting a date (for getting married, that is). October 10th my 2nd oldest brother is gettin' hitched to a supa keen lady. I could not be more happy about how they're doing it either. I never did imagine Peeg getting married in a traditional way (that is a compliment, I assure you). And the party when they get back must be rockin'. ROCKIN!
TWO: I have decided to start putting a daily Dr. Bronner's quote from his famed Magic 18-in-1 Hemp Peppermint Pure-Castile Soap since I am such an avid and loyal user of said soap. DISCLAIMER: although these quotes are funny and the soap gets you cleaner than heaven, I don't necessarily endorse or believe in what crazy Dr. Bronner says. That being said, the quote of the day is:
Yet, if absolute-unselfish I am not for me, I'm not but classless, raceless,starving masses, never free nor brave!
Three: Also, taking a page from Stacy's blog, I would like everyone to know what it is I am currently listening to. So:
I am mostly listening to Flogging Molly and Coldplay right now. Specifically, Drunken Lullabies and A Rush of Blood to the Head, respectively. Thanks to David for introducing me to the Flogging Molly. Rock does not begin to describe what they do.

I hope everyone is well!
Peace,
Joe

Ok, so here are a few stories about spring break AND BEYOND....
We drove down on a saturday and it was a beautiful day. Note that for the entire trip it was gorgeous. 70 to 75 each day, no clouds, clear ocean. On the way down I talked to Amberly and she said she was not well. After she told me about her symptoms I told her to go to the ER. She did, and I spent much of the night talking to her as she went in and out for tests. She is ok now, and for that I am thankful.
After I found out all was cool with Amberly, my friends threw me a rockin' birthday party which included Drew bowing in front of me with a cake (it was D-LISH) and a bottle of Bushmills Black Bush. What a gift! As of now it is about half empty after the entire trip. It is supa keen.
The next day we went to the beach and generally had a good time. That was the pattern until the next night, when we went to a pub called Mcguire's. There I had (among other things) a drink called an Irish Wake. After a few of the, umm, shall we say, "fine drinks" I decided it would be a good idea to go down and talk to the guy playing live music. His name was Bill Kavanaugh, and he was quite good. So good was he that I bought a CD. It also could have been becasue I was (parents, don't look) drunk. Maybe. We proceeded to talk about where he was from and the fact that if I was ever in Shannon or near Donegal I should come see him. He was nice. Then we went home and I proceeded to sit down and watch the room spin. Then my guitar was in my hands! Then I fell asleep. Yep, the Irish came out in me that evening.
The next day we played a bit of football and one of my friends broke his toe. So someone got hurt besides me. But, as my dad put it, it was the "Joe effect." If I don't get hurt someon near me will.
The day we left my friend Joe and I decided that we needed to lighten the load for the way home becasue there was really not much room in the car. So we had some beer. At 9 in the morning. In the shower (not together). It was grand fun. DISCLAIMER: I was not driving home, nope. We were so concerned with giving the instruments proper room (two guitars and a cello) that Joe road with my guitar in his lap and I had to scoot my chair up until I was eating my knees for the cello. Joe's guitar sat inbetween the seats. But we all got home ok and it was a great time.
The day we got back Joe came home with me and Drew came over and we all ate pasta. (Note: this is incredible seeing as how Victor tried to kill us with pasta the night before.) Then we decided "hey, we've never been to The Peerless in Anniston, let's go." So we got there and paid 4 dollars cover for a, ummm, band. We settled into some pool when this lady who looked a bit (sarcasm here) older than us approached Joe. She proceeded to ask Joe "do you come from money?" and then hang all over him. Drew and I looked over and saw Joe looking (more sarcasm) a bit uncomfortable, and so I went over to help. She proceeded to ask my name (Bob I thought, or perhaps Pepe?) but Joe Chandler came out and I was over. She knew my dad and proceeded to adhere herself to me, very drunk, very touchy, and very not cool. As Drew and I tried to finish our game fast she knocked over my Killian's and said something like "ohw gaed, eye ayam serrorry. i'll buyey yew anober beers!" At that point Drew and I "finished" our game by putting all the balls in the pockets and tried to walk out. As I was on my way out the parent's of one of my friends from high school came up, ummm, intoxicated and asked if I was done with the pool table. I said something like "uhhhhh" and the follwed Drew and Joe as they ran out the door. Just then I was clasped on the shoulder by the young lady that had bought me a beer and asked "wheres is yew gwan? i's gotted yew a beers!" I told her politely that she could have it and we ran away. Later on we went to Drew's and hung out. There Joe said to me, "Anniston is scary." Indeed.
And that is pretty much it, without going on and on. I had a great spring break, and now its time to work for the month and a half of school I have left. For all you folks that read this site, I graduate May 24th at 3pm in the afternoon at Boutwell Auditorium. My school is small so we need a big place to do the graduating. I will be calling for invitations soon. Real invitations are expensive, so I will call on a weekend when my cell phone is free.
And that is all for the today.
I hope everyone is well!
Peace,
Joe

Hallo. I am sorry I have not posted in a bazillion years, but...
1) I went to spring break
2) When I got back I found out that my research group had been accepted to a conference, and I was to represent the group by giving a talk. The catch is... THE TALK IS TOMORROW! Yep, we have been working nonstop on this thing since we got back. I am working on 2.5 hours of sleep and lots o' the coffee. I actually have the lecture in my hand right now. Scary. So I promise soon that I'll post with funny spring break stories.

Also, I formally accepted Alabama's offer for Grad school this week. Too many good things all in one place to turn down. I start August 19th workin' on the ol' doctorate.

I hope evryone is well and has had more sleep than me.

Peace,
Joe