I made my rubberbanding box program work. All by myself. without pulling an all nighter. Or even getting up before 8. Yeah. Cheaters, take that. (Basically, the program draws the same kind of boxes that windows draws if you drag your mouse across the desktop to select several icons. It draws a box which has an origin corner at the point you pressed the mouse button, and disappears when you release the mouse button). Yay for me!!
Oh yeah, I added the description of Edward on my quizes below... I though it really fit. Anyway....
I am treating myself to breakfast now to celebrate my genius. Biscuts and gravy, here I come..... Oh yeah, and maybe eggs....
posted by Deedee 9:55 AM
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Although you are a computer genius, you tend to borderline on cuteness vs. pyschosis. You are energetic, and most likely people have a hard time deciding if they should hug you or slap you.
checking the new server out.... hopeing ece is in fact more stable than ra (www2).
posted by Deedee 1:34 PM
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Monday, October 28, 2002
Happy happy joy joy... the network is back up.. for the moment. it seems like it's been down more than up this semester... especially www2. Grr... I am seriously considering moving my blog to the ECE server... it only goes down if the whole campus goes down... which would be only slightly better than once every five minutes, but still... better is good. I'll let y'all know if I end up moving my blog. Blah.
So this is what I got done this weekend: Design paper.... ummm..... yeah. I had to redraw the stinking pictures like, 8 times. grr. but it's over now. Yay! I should get a marked up version back tomorrow, then I hand it off to a group member for the corrections to be typed.
Meanwhile, this is what I have to do this week (schoolwise): Two test re-works, a Mathematica project, finish a mathematica project, three lab reports, finish my micro lab, do the last half of last week's circuits lab, plus this week's circuits lab, study for a Calulus test, and figure out some circuits homework.
And socially (supposedly, anyway): Tuesday night is Insight at the Wesley, Wednesday night my dorm is throwing a god-awfully loud party and i am going to go get free food before retreating to some remote part of the campus, Thursday night is Haloween, and the annual Haloween fair, Friday night I told Matt I'd try to make it to Judgement House (he's going to hell that night), and Saturday is not only game day, but the day of our Sunday School Harvest Party, as well. And Sunday I have church, which kills at least half the day.
So what am I doing right now? Writing in my blog and making myself sick on Wal-mart cupcakes, what else?
posted by Deedee 6:02 PM
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Saturday, October 26, 2002
*la la la la-la* Hooray for going out. And having fun. And dancing. And getting called up to dance on the stage. And laughing at drunk people. And being really bad at pool. And drinking my weight in water. *smile*
And sleeping in. Sleeping in is nice.
On a much more random note, Esa dreamed last night that I was cheating on Chad with some random Wesley guy... and that the guy dumped me for another girl, and I was pissed. Go figure.
Blah. School work sucks. A lot. So this is what I have to do this weekend: type more on my (group's) Design paper... write a lab report... work on a Micro lab... get started on a Mathematica project... I think that's it. I hope. That's all I'm doing, anyway.
posted by Deedee 11:37 AM
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Friday, October 25, 2002
blah... hell week is over. I think. And I'm going out tonight. *happy dance* Yeah. I think I need to get out more.... To sum up my week, it sucked. But it's over. At least that. And next week won't be that bad... we think.
But i haven't even been able to post lately... the server that holds all the personal webpages for the school (www2) has been up and down so much lately... grr. And I haven't had time to think, or write. Anyway....
Music is good. Music makes me happy (listeneing to my radio).
In other news, I'm going to spend Thanksgiving with Chad's family.... Chad may or may not be there, which is odd... but it will be cool. So I'm going home the weekend before Thanksgiving. So my family will get ot see me.
Ok, enough rambling... need to think about food.
posted by Deedee 3:38 PM
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Today sucks. Life sucks. Grr.
So this is my story. I intended to get up at 7am this morning, and study for my two tests today, but I couldn't get up this morning... so I got up at 8am. And my roommate told me I was lazy. And I went and studied for my micro test in the Cafeteria. I thought i had everything from the book and the lecture slides pretty well down when I headed to class... But the test wasn't on the lectures. Or the slides. Or the book. In fact, I don't know what the test was on... or how we were supposed to know how to work it. And the proctor (Dr. Little is out of town) had never taken a Micro course, so she was no help. So I'm pretty sure I failed the test. After talking to the rest of the class, I determined that everyone failed the test, but that's not making me feel much better right now. So then, I go to computer science class, and Sean was upset because he got a bad grade on the presenation (85)... then I felt bad, because I didn't organize more group meetings for him to practice his presentation... then we reviewed for Thursday's test. And then, still bummed because I failed a test, I started walking to my Linear Algebra test... I looked both ways, and crossed in the crosswalk... And for the third time in as many days, I was hit by a car. They like, didn't even stop at the stop sign... if I hadn't stepped back, they would have hit me squarely.... but instead, all they did was catch me with their mirror. And that pissed me off. They didn't look to see if I was ok, or anything... grr. So I walked on. I wanted to be destructive or something... so I went to kick a rock and hope it broke something... but I missed the rock (note: people with no depth perception shouldn't kick rocks) and fell flat on my butt. Even more frustrated, I picked myself up, and continued on to my Linear test.... and I think I C'd it. Which really sucks, because I actually had an A in Linear. And because I knew the stuff... I just couldn't concentrate. I couldn't do it.
Which has been most of my problem this semester. It's not that i have 18 hours... I've taken 18-19 hours before... it makes things a little rough, but that's not what's killing me this semester. It's a combination of everything... Granny being in the hospital for the last month and a half... problems with Elisa... being sick... not having Chad here... looking at my friends who are graduating/have graduated and realizing that none of them have jobs... trying to figure out if I'm going to have a job *in Colorado* when I graduate (I was promised a job in Huntsville... but that doesn't help me much right now)... trying to balance my finances... trying to explain to Elisa why I'm not moving off campus with her... trying to figure out what dorm I'm going to live in... not being able to breathe... having at least two teachers turn into total assholes... having my project groups give me huge amounts of stuff to do ("you're smarter than us, so you have more time to do this stuff").... it all adds up. I can only take so much before I explode.... And I'm about there right now. I'm so close to graduation.... but I don't know if I'm going to make it... I seriously don't know if I'm going to survive this semester, much less handle three more semesters... I keep telling myself it gets better, but I'm not really sure it does.
I am so tired... I can't concentrate... I can't think... and I have two more labs to finish this week, plus two more tests and a project design document... all before Friday. Plus, Elisa's pissy because I told her I'm not moving off campus with her... and now she's trying to figure out how she's going to find another girl to room with her and the guys. I just couldn't deal with her AND Silas AND Corvelle... Elisa's hard enough to deal with. I am so sick of her hunting me down when I'm out too late and asking me to come home because she's lonely... and her using my computer... and wearing the clothes that I laid out to wear today... and whining about getting married... and lecturing me on the morals of TV producers, and my morals, and my life... And constantly reminding me that I cant finish anythng I start... I just can't deal with it right now...
That's the other thing. I've been putting off everything emotional... I don't have time to deal with it, so I box it up somewhere, and claim I'll deal with it later. But when is later? will i be any less busy this spring? Or summer? Will I ever deal with all this crap? or will I just let it pile up until I have a nervous breakdown? I don't have time to deal with it now... but it will only be worse later. I think I need to take a weekend off... away from project groups and Esa and my family and everything... and go somewhere and sort myself out again. And then, maybe... Maybe I'll be able to function like a normal person again.
But it's not going to happen this weekend.... I have group meetings all weekend. But I did promise William that we would go out Friday night... so I'll get a little time away. Which will be nice. In the meantime, I guess I had better go study. Or nap. Or something.
posted by Deedee 2:30 PM
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blah. If anyone has any clue why a hidden field in an HTML form would refuse to admit that it has a value, let me know.
So I am spending the evening in the library, since if I stay in my room, I'll be put on a guilt trip for using my computer and not letting my roommate use my computer. And my program is being dumb. Or, more likely, I am being dumb, and my program is just doing what I tell it to... grr. but I have gotten a great deal of it done. better than nothing.
Oh well... maybe I'll try to find a good fiction book to read before I leave the library... not that I'm going to have time to read before Friday, but one can hope.
"You know what I'd do if I had a million bucks?"
posted by Deedee 7:41 PM
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Saturday, October 19, 2002
just a thought. roommates are gross. And they get pissy a lot. And I'm going to hell. She said so. And since my roommate is going to be the one that determines these things.... yep, I'm doomed. Hell forever. Yeah baby. For what, you might ask, am I being sent to hell? I'm not sure, exactly, but I think it has something to do with sex. Because, you know, I'm all about sex.
posted by Deedee 5:51 PM
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I don't want to do homework...
So here I am :-) But I'm thinking about leaving soon.... If I can figure out how to breathe, I might drag my lazy butt down to the library to study. Breathing shouldn't be something you have to think about.... grr.
And if I could get rid of my roommate, I might could get some work done. Everytime I get good and started on anything, she starts yapping about like, jobs, or Ian, or money, or just crap... and I lose track of what I'm doing. Granted, my concentration isn't what it should be (I have drugs to thank for that)... but still, I really think that if she'd be still for a minute, I could do something. Except, now she's being still, but she turned on the radio, and the country music is rattleing around in my head.... it's not that I don't like country.... it's that today is just not the day for it. Today is more of a...... Sinatra day? or Nat King Cole? Or the Andrew's Sisters.... or something that is not country. Preferably soft jazz. Harry Conick, Jr. would be nice. But Elisa doesn't like that kind of music. And it's all about her. So my head hurts.
And I'm hungry. But not hungry enough to cook. maybe.... maybe I'll go over to William's and finish off my Chinese food I left over there. Or maybe I'll make a union run. There's a deer in Chad's back yard. An eight-point buck. Just thought you'd like to know. Or maybe I'll get off my bum and cook. Or maybe I'll starve. In any case, I'm hungry.
And I hate Wal-mart. The one time I actually decide to spend money and buy a dvd that Chad doesn't have, they don't carry the dadgum thing. I mean, really.... who doesn't carry Memento? (Wal-mart in Stark-vegas). Grr. And they don't have ham, either.
Maybe I will go out tonight and show off my new Kenny parka. It's orange. And it has a hood. I'm going to zip it all the way up until only my eyes show, and shuffle around mumbling at everyone through my parka. *smile*.
My roommate sees sex in everything..... she's always yelling about how this is all about sex, or that is all about sex. Everything is all about sex..... Which I guess is ok, if you're not Elisa, but it rubs her the wrong way.... and then, of course, she yells at me about it. Like I can fix it. Like I want to fix it.... Most of it is in her mind, anyway.... grr. Anyway.....
Random M-State Fact Of The Day: The sidewalk in front of Hilbun Hall is exactly as wide as a school bus from the inside of one tire to the inside of the other. I know this because there was a school bus parked across the entire sidewalk yesterday.... and both the inside of the driver's side back tire and the inside of the passenger's side back tire were touching, but not overlapping, the edge of the sidewalk. Why there was a bus on the sidwalk, I don't know... maybe they were trying to parallel park and missed?
posted by Deedee 3:57 PM
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Thursday, October 17, 2002
I hate stupid, pointless assignments. That being said, I also hate stupid people. Especially ones that bug me when I'm having a bad day... and expect me to do their work for them. So there.
So, for the last two days, all I have done is homework (except for an hour or so last night when William came over and I hung out, and today when I grabbed a quick dinner at the Wesley). When I got to lab today at 3:30, I was not in the best of moods, having had two extremely long and, for the most part, unproductive. A heart-to-heart with my lab TA help my mood a little.... but then this guy, who has decided that I'm his lab partner, decided to bug the crap out of me. He wouldn't even read the frickin' lab, he kept asking me what he was supposed to do.... then he wouldn't think about how to solve the problem, and wanted to copy my code... and after the lab TA explicitly told him he couldn't just copy, he needed to work it out for himself, he still bugged me until the TA and I showed him how to modify his code to make it work.... But he was still an ass. And he still pissed me off. But *ha*ha*.... I almost finished my lab, and he didn't get halfway done. So there.
Speaking of asses.... I hate it when people assume the know things about my personal life. They find out Chad was here last weekend, and they asuume that all kind of crap went on, and they feel obligated to ask me about it and say stupid things like, Did you have *fun*? Did you get rugburn on your knees? Do you like to take it up the ass? etc, etc... ad nasuem. People assume that just because Chad and I are dating, certain things happen in our relationship.... and they also assume that our relationship is somehow their business. Ok, everyone, I know this may be a suprise to you... anything that happens between me and Chad stays just that.... between me and Chad. And our God. Not between you and me, or you and your deity, or you and your friends, or you and your imagination. Not that anyone that regularly reads my blog has been a problem.... but just in case the thought ever occured to you, don't ask. Grr.
But dinner at the Wesley was nice. Everyone is worried about my lung problems... everyone's being so nice. Hopefully, Myra (my nurse practitioner) will figure out something to do... this inhaler thingy isn't helping a lot. But i go back to her tomorrow. Damn bats.
And now I do more homework... and more homework... and tomorrow, I will do still more homework. And next semester, I will have buttloads of homework.... but only one lab (yay!!). Note: Never take three labs. You will die. Or wish you had.
I think I'm going to cut (guys read: trim) my hair this weekend. And maybe highlight it some more. We'll see. And I might buy Memento, if I can figure out if Chad has it or not... I dreamed about Guy Pierce last night.... it was odd.
Fun weekend. Saw Chad lots. Football. Square dancing. Chad. Ate at Abner's. Read entire novel. Life is good.
Long day. Class... nap... lab. Group project (part 1) turned in. Registrar's office. Stupid people. Got letter (finally).... no fax machine (bummer). Spring schedule out... mine sucks. Oh well.
working on lab (times 3)... homework... blah. Need life.
Also need food.... food is good. need to read book.... must read another book....
I need to rant, but before I do.... I would like to say howinsanelycoolLegosare. Just in case you were wondering. Oh yeah... and the site of the day: Lego pr0n. Don't say I didn't warn you....
Now to rant. Ok. If you are my friend, or if you hang out with me and might at some point in the future actually get to know me well enough to be my friend, or if you are a friend of one of my friends, I will be more than happy to help you with your computer/website/homework problems. However...
Do not ask me to format your hardrive for no reason if you do not have your OS disks. That will cause problems rebooting your system, and will cause computer downtime, which is bad.
When I ask you the size of your hard drive, don't tell me "Whatever comes in a Pentium II." That is not helpful.
Do not tell me that your computer is fully functional if your floppy drive is fried, your cd drive is semi functional, and your keyboard is flakey.
If I have to leave for a group meeting, do not do dumbass things like deleting your primary partition and all your dos commands.
If you delete your primary partition while I'm gone, do not call me up and claim you "hit the wrong button." You hit several wrong buttons. As far as I know, there are no one-keystroke dos commands to delete a partition.
Do not expect me to fix your stupid mistakes at 11:30pm when the network is down and I have a lab due the next day. It will stress me out.
Do not insult my music preferences/CD collection while I am fixing your stupid mistakes. It will make me want to blow up your computer.
Do not brag about the new case you payed too much for, and tell me it has a "window" if you do not know what a mod is, or if you have ugly flat gray cables and have no clue they make anything different.
Do not make me use Windows 3.x, 95, 98, or Dell computers.
Do not give me your password/login info and expect me to forget it before I have time to do anything devious. Either don't give me your password, or change it when I leave.
Oh... and a word about roommates and computers. If I am on my computer, and you want to use my computer, you should wait until I'm done. My homework, games, and blogging take precidence over your e-mail, because it's my computer. If you need internet access and cannot wait for me to finish, then go to the lab. Do not tyr to kick me off of my computer. It will piss me off. Grr.
*sigh*. I'm better now. Stupid people just piss me off.
posted by Deedee 2:27 PM
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Saturday, October 05, 2002
blah. Being far away from someone you love really sucks. But that's ok.... Chad will be here next weekend... and I will be very happy. *smile*
I hope Chad's visit normals me out some... My moods have been so odd lately... I hate that. Like last night... after watching the VeggieTales movie, the guys and I went ot Wal-mart and hung out, and I acted like a total fluff ball. I hate being fluffy. It really bothers me. The only thing that saved me was Matt started talking about 3rd edition... which sobered me up for a few minutes.... roleplaying is good. Fluffy is bad. Grr.
Now, cool story about VeggieTales movie: Starkvegas decided that only little kids would want to see this movie, so they only scheduled one showing: 7pm. This of course, was not the best time for college students... So Chikin (Cari Casteel) had someone call the theater and convince them to have a midnight showing... they said they'd only do it if we brought 15 people... and we managed to round up almost 30 people!!! So we had our very own showing of Veggietales. It was awesome.
About the movie: I thought it was great. the graphics were excellent (something I was worried about)... the music was awesome (a given... they even had a swing dancing song!!)... and the humor was typical of VeggieTales (Somewhat of a cross between Monty Python and the Muppets, basically). It was very definately a Judeo-Christian movie, but shouldn't offend anyone who isn't... God is mentioned, and actually plays a large role in the story (it's Jonah, how could He not?), but the story is really about compassion, mercy, and second chances. The moral of the story is to give everyone a second chance, which (as far as I can tell) isn't against too many people's religion... Anyway, the movie was good. The only thing it was missing was SIlly Songs with Larry.... but they kinda filled that in during the credits. And I'm going back to see it again next weekend with Chad :-)
posted by Deedee 6:27 PM
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This is my brain..... in part, at least.
