Yeah. So today was really long, because I had a million classes.... and because I had to limp across campus like, 6 times (I turned my ankle yesterday... or was it the day before?). Long. But somewhat productive, I guess.
Had a weird dream... one of those weird fuzzy dreams where you only remeber bits and peices of it, and it doesn't seem to make sense... yet you know in the dream it made sense, somehow. So... in my dream, I was sitting in this girl's lap, looking at the sky (stars? meteors? Dunno. Pretty sure it was nighttime, though...). Can't tell you much about her... she was wearing glasses, I think? All I know is, it wasn't Jo. Not the same glasses. We were talking about something, but I don't remember what... seemed kind of important in the dream. That's about all I remember... except maybe something about spiders... but that might have been another dream.
Discussion question... anyone ever thought about (or heard about) steganography? (no, this isn't as random as you might think... I actualy had a reason to ask. working on a lab project).
Dude... I just discovered that I can make PDFs from OpenOffice... without having Adobe Acrobat. Open Source software r0x0r5.
On the other hand, WebCT sucks, because it only is supported by IE. I hate Microsoft. They support crappy programming. We'll see what Dr. Dampier has to say about it today. Grr.
No really... I just totally made up a lab report... culled down a list of sources to something manageable that I can actually work with when I go to the library tomorrow... checked and answered e-mail... and held several AIM conversations... all while in Statistics class.
But. Ethics class is not nearly as fun.
So I'll have to get off of the computer now. *sigh*
Back fomr Statewide... and (amazingly) caught up on homework, too... for the moment.
So. Statewide was awesome, except Ole Miss didn't show :-P Not sure what I thought of the speaker... interesting. I guess.
But... Get this... Bad Feng Shui showed up to statewide! hey did an acoustic set for us at coffee house.. not the whole band, mind you, just three members (they usually have three more mandolins, and an electric mandolin).
I was shocked and amazed to discover that there is no Bad Feng Shui music on like, any of the file sharing programs around here... I mean, really... they opened for Jimmy Eat World last year.
Oh yeah... kind of an aside. And pointless, I suppose since you can't comment...
Has anyone seen the new IBM/Linux commercials on TV? Cause I thought that was just way too cool... Chad says I'm a dork. *sigh* So what does the rest of the world (computer techies and not-computer techies both) think about it?
And why is there like, almost zero open source stuff for Macs? Is there not a demand for it? Or not enough designers? (One would assume that demand would create designers... but not always). Interesting thought question, I suppose.
Anyone care to comment on the topics of technophobia, especially as it relates to automation? (If I could cite you as a source, that'd be even better *grin*)
PS... Because David will get a kick out of this... looks like I may be citing an article from MacWorld (in like, 1996) on technophobia as relating to sci-fi movies. Interestingly enough, the MSU ly-berry subscribes to both MacWorld and MacUser. Who'd have thought it?
So I survived the first week of school... and Elisa's wedding.
And I have decided that Chad and i are going to run away. Weddings are a pain in the butt.
Other than that... not much has happened lately. I've written and turned in two papers, done two seperate sets of homework problems, and turned in a cool security lab thingy. Other than that, mostly I've just gone to class. Blah.
Classes look good this semster, though... lots of fun stuff, lots of good instructors. Yay for me.
I should be researching for several Ethics papers and an Ethics presentation in the next couple of weeks, so expect some odd philosophical/ethical dilemma links and stuff. :-)
Anyway. Now I'm going to go to bed, because I've actually slept *counting...* 5 hours in the last two days? If I go to bed right now... I can get close to 7 hours tonight. Unless my roommate decides to watch The Ring at midnight again tonight. In which case I'll wake up like, every five minutes because I'm sure something crawled out of the TV to get me. The Ring isn't a particularly good movie to try to sleep through...
Ok. People. If I am ever a size 4 (and I never will be, but bear with me), and I ever tell someone how fat I am that I had to order a SIZE 4 DRESS... when they have just finished telling me they had to order a size 12 dress... hit me. Hard enough to knock sense back into my head. Please.
Disclaimer: I am not suggesting that I will ever attempt to be a size 4. I am actually pretty happy with my current size... although I could stand to get back in shape. So don't freak out... I'm not going on any crash wedding diets or anything. (I get measured for my dress tonight, so I can't loose too much weight, anyway).
Ok. I get to go home now. The Civil Servants went like, at noon. And We haven't had water since... noon. But we had to stay.
The building could have caught on fire, and there would have been no sprinklers to put it out, and since we're contractors, we're not allowed to use fire extengishers... so we would have all like, burned up or something (because we are too dumb to go outside). Yeah. Don't you love the government?
Anyway... going home to do laundry and go to church... and maybe eat. Food would be good.
But my immeadiate need... is a toliet with running water.
*brrr* It. Is. Cold. Very Cold. My WeatherPixie says it's 37 degrees in Starkville... a little colder here, I imagine. Snowing, on and off all day today But not enough to get out of work.
I am so scatterbrained today... it's like i can't hold one thought in my head for any length of time...
I swear... when we move to the new building, I want to be back in the teacher hub. Or in the Techie end of the building. But not where I am. Stupid... People... Piss me off.
ok. Two things. First I must rant. Then I will talk about cool stuff.
Rant: Why would someone ask me to help plan a bridal shower, and then never call me with contact information for the other girl who's planning the shower, never contact me with any information on the wedding beyond sending me an invitation and telling me what dress to buy (I'm a bridesmaid, hence the reason I'd be asked help plan the shower)... be out of town everytime I've tried to contact her.... and then schedule the dadgum shower when I have to be at school? *screams* Ok. Yes. I'm better now.
Cool Stuff: So I went to this bridal fair yesterday, and signed up for lots of drawings... And I won! A Honeymoon trip! 3 days 2 nights to like, Cancun or the Domincan Republic, or a bunch of different places... All food and everything included... plus a camera and 100 rolls of film. Wow. Yay for me! (and Chad, I guess, since he gets to go, too). *happy dance*
So... my current NE project brings me to the question....
Exactly how big can you make a PDF before Acrobat blows up? I'm assuming it's a very lage number of pages.... but Acrobat doesn't seem too happy about my current document... which is about to hit 500 pages.
ok. So I took this graphics class this semester... which was fun, but stressfull, and i wasn't that good at it. I chose the final over the final project... and came out of the test thinking I had failed it.
so... That happened to be the last grade that came in... so I didn't check it. Like, I refused to log into banner and look at my grades. So I've been stressing over this grade for like, 2 or 3 weeks.
Finally bit the bullet and looked this morning...
I got a B.
Yep. Idiot is the word that comes to mind. If i had just looked like, three weeks ago, I could have saved myself at least that much stress...
Oh well.
So yeah. I made it through probably the worst semester I've had, and I didn't fail anything. And I only got one C. And like, 3 A's. Overall, I average out the semester with something a little higher than a B. Which is not that bad, really.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
