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Katrina didn’t do a whole lot of damage in Starkville. My power went in and out for about a couple of hours, but that was the main effect she had on me. I’ve heard that many parts of the Jackson area don’t have power or water. In Starkville there are trees down and some buildings and vehicles were damaged, but it’s nothing compared to what happened on the coast. I feel bad for the people that were affected by the hurricane.

No, I’m not ignoring anyone. I’ve just been a little busy. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get caught up with everything this weekend.

They’re saying that the weather is going to get really bad in northeast Mississippi. Katrina may still be a category 1 hurricance with it reaches.

I’ve got some preparations to make just in case the electricity gets knocked out. Better to be safe than sorry.

I hope that everybody makes it through ok.

I figured I should give an update on my situation. The job hunt has not gone as well as I would have liked. I got lots of nibbles. For a while the phone was ringing off the hook. However, I wasn’t getting any bites. It seemed like all the companies I spoke to didn’t want someone fresh out of college. Or maybe they just didn’t like me.

I hate to have to settle for something but a man’s got to pay the bills. Going home and living off my mother wasn’t an option. My brother-in-law and a former professor had suggested that I look into teaching. I heard about an opening, so I applied for and was offered a part-time position teaching computer science classes at the local community college. A few days later I was offered a position tutoring at the university. All of this happened less than 2 weeks ago. Both of these positions last until December.

Maybe better opportunities will open up later. I just hope I don’t miss anything because I am locked into these jobs until December. They’re pretty much throwing me to the wolves and expecting me to figure out a lot on my own. It’ll be ok though. I start tomorrow.

Life has been ok other than the frustrating job search. Other than searching for a job I haven’t been doing much other than reading (Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia) and watching DVD’s. I beat X-Men Legends a second time and now I’m trying to figure out what game to work on next. I also plan on redoing the assignments I did for the Advanced Computer Graphics class I took last semester.

If gas doesn’t stop going up, I might be riding my bike everywhere from now on.

My cell phone number and primary email address have changed. I’ll get that out information out later.

I’ve lost about 25 lbs over the past 3-4 months. Here’s the key to success.

First you need to lose your appetite for no apparent reason. You won’t even be able to finish small meals for some reason. You’ll feel hungry about as much as you normally do, but once you start eating your desire to eat will disappear.

While this is going on you need to start exercising. Exercise is important. Even if you can’t go to a gym, you need to exercise.

After about a month you will gradually start back eating at normal levels. Again, there should be no logical explanation for this.

A few weeks later you need to come down with food poisoning and get so sick that you don’t want to eat much. Once again, you’ll be hungry, but the idea of eating will not be appealing. It’s okay to stop exercising while you are recovering from the food poisoning.

While you are sick from food poisoning, you need to go through a stressful event like a master’s defense. Hopefully, you’ll be so busy that you won’t have time to eat well.

After this is over you need to start back exercising. That’s really important. You can go back to eating the things you like, but do so in moderation. Moderation is important.

If your appetite suddenly starts playing tricks on you again, then that can be very helpful to weight loss.

Well, that’s how I did it. Whatever you do, don’t follow my lead. It was mostly random for me. Do it the right way.