Jeff Billimek’s Journal

Its been three months. I will start from the beginning. I went on the Colorado trip and recorded all of my days on that trip on paper that I will someday transcribe to this. It picks up on 6-11-95. After I got back from the trip I tried to get a job at West Telemarketing, but they didn’t have any positions open, so I didn’t know what I was going to do for a job. I then started working for Carol. I took over Brian’s old job of inspecting houses and running errands for the company (Brass Ring Properties). I did that, and worked with Craig only about two times trimming trees. I worked with Adam a lot painting houses, high-pressure washing driveways, and fixing fence boards. I also did a few things with my friends over the summer and played on my computer a lot. Larry came to visit me a couple of times, and him, John and I went to Con-Can to go tubing for one day. We also went to Bandera to go swimming in the Medina river for one weekend. I also went camping with James Bernsen, Brandy Novak (James’s girlfriend), Kathryn (James’s, and Brandy’s friend), and Craig. We went camping at Garner State Park. We stayed three nights. It was VERY much fun.

I moved up to Austin on Saturday, August 26th. Larry came to Austin the following day to help me get settled. We went to the mall and got different supplies. I finally got settled in. My roommate is Doug Jones. He is also a Computer Science Major, and I feel that we get along well. John lives in room 226, I live in room 223. Simkins is nice and small. We almost always eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at Kinsolving, a girl’s dorm with a cafeteria. It is nice to eat there because there are a lot of girls and the food is better (In my opinion). I spent $110 on tests (SAT II Writing, SAT II Math, and Computer Science 304P CLEP test). I only got a 55 on the Computer Science test, so I had to drop Computer Science II (CS 315) and take CS 304P (Computer Science I). All my classes are O.K. I don’t know what S 304P is like yet, because I switched on Friday. I was VERY lucking to get it switched since all of the CS 304P classes are full. John talked to Bruce Porter (His boss (and Larry’s old boss)). Bruce talked to me and made some phone calls and got me into a small, fast paced CS 304P class. Last nice (9-2-95) we went to a sports-bar-type place called “Players” and watched the UT-Hawaii game on TV. We left at the end of the 3rd quarter because it was very late (1:45am), And because UT was winning by a very LARGE margin.

(edited, 08-13-2002)