Yeah... today's not gong to be a good day. I woke up feeling like crap (kinda like all of yesterday), and gave up the chance at a close parking space so as to be able to sleep for 15 more minutes... didn't really sleep for about 14 of those minutes, and fell back asleep literally one minnute before my alarm went off again (sleeping in... not a good idea). And, when I got to Butler hall.... no Mello Yello. Only Coke. *sigh*
However... unlike Monique, I will not blame God for my whiney problems. Today, anyway.
Dude... I so need one of these. Perky goth, indeed. :-)
In an interesting side note, whilst on my trip to Raleigh, someone called me a Gothlette. As in a baby goth. (not one of the people at the conference, needless to say). Don't know whether to be offended. Goth wasn't exactly the style I was going for... but oh well.
So... I'm in that weird transition in my life, where half my friends are single, and half of the other friends are married and having kids. And I'm more or less in between... Which has it's good and bad moments. *sigh*
Came across this song on Launchcast... it rang really true... more so than most gooey country love songs ;-)
I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you
Every long lost dream lead me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
- "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts
You wouldn't have to use them, you could just have them walking around and stuff. I mean, everybody loves zombies. It's the end of the world, goddammit!
-Sam
The weekend has been pretty cool. Yesterday I went to the NC Museum of History, and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Both free. And very cool. The history museum had a cool centennial of flight exibit, which I very much enjoyed, and the Natural science place had lots of cool bugs and snakes and stuff. And the gift shop had lots of cool things to look at and buy (Christmas shopping, anyone?)... And I got somehting for Chad I could give him now... a wolf christmas ornament (more difficult to find than you would imagine).
Last night I went and hung out with people after the game was over (like, 1:30am)... Which was cool because apparently Chad's character got wrapped up in some high level plot and did some cool stuff (and didn't die), so he got to tell everyone about it, and they got to ooh and ahh about it :-) As a side note, Tony had mixed up some wild tropical drink that they had me try... I'm going to have to get all his recipes. He makes good fluffy type mixed drinks.
Today, I slept. Oh yeah. It was great. Then I stole Chad's truck and went to the mall. Which I found yesterday, while looking for the museums. And I found out the August Max is going out of business! I'm so buying a whole bunch of stuff from them when I go back to Huntsville. While it's cheap. That's some of the most comfy dress clothes ever. Ever.
And I went and visited Chad in the vendor's room and bought me a t-shirt... it's navy blue with this design on it. It's so me!! They had some other shirts, including Dork Tower stuff there, too (like a shirt that said "No pain, no +1 str"), but I could only justify one. Oh well.
Now, I must try and do hmework (or goof off) for 6 or 7 hours until the game ends again (supposed to be 1am). Tomorrow we go home (not sure how early though... might stay for closing ceremonies, might not). Yay for vacations!
Dude... This conference is exactly like a live action version of Dork Tower. It's interesting to discover that there are people that are more weirder and more into White Wolf than our own beloved Cammies back home. It's gonna be a fun weekend... ;-)
You have Purple Wings! Lost and Confused, when your wings are purple, its difficult to see ahead because the fog is clouding your vision. You can never decide easily, and even the simplest choices are difficult to take. A quite, kind person, you have a very sharp mind and can do anything if you set your mind to it. But something probably very sad happened in your life, and now, you question anything. Lost in your trance and afraid to peak outside your box, right now your life is very frustrating. But, dont forget this very important thing: Purple is made from blue and red, and with just a little bit of pushing, you can go back.
Not a whole lot to say though. Stuff happened this weekened... Chad got a car (SUV) to replace the dying Intrepid... Some crackho/stupid kid stole my gameboy... we played games with friends and family in the Memphis area (when we weren't car shopping)... we did lots of stuff. but for some reason, I don't feel like saying much.
I need to go write papers and stuff. Because lots of it is due this week. And more of it is due next week. And I will be gone most of the weekend enjoying the sights of North Carolina while Chad enjoys the sights of the end of the World (the White Wolf world, of course. Don't worry... it restarts in January. As if you were worried. Ha). I will have my computer... but I'm not sure how much internet access I will have, as I refuse to pay some outrageous per hour fee for wireless like the last couple of hotels I have stayed in charged. Maybe ours will be more reasonable. Or maybe I'll have to find the library, or an internet cafe or something.
But yeah. If I'm quiet, that's why.
Oh yeah... a key fell off of my keyboard today. One day. After. I was in a town with a Best Buy where they could fix it. Stupid thing will have to wait until Christmas break. Grr.
I really am going to go do more work now (my first paper of the night, due tomorrow, is about 75 words from being finished. Then I have to write a bunch of software engineering stuff, and an abstract for a paper on user interfaces... and something else that I can't remeber right now).
ok... for those of you who are sick of CYS... I finished reading the archive. So now I have to wait, with the rest of the world, for new strips to come out... so that means I won't be posting a million CYS strips every day :-)
Yeah. That about sums it up today. Not enough sleep last night. And apparently, I scared Chad out of his mind last night by screaming bloody murder because I was dreaming about spiders (I remember very little of this, but he swears it's true).
So I need to pick a concentration. Torn between AI and Software Engineering.
AI: awesome topic, would have no problem coming up with a thesis and/or project, very excited about it... but not so marketable on the Masters level. Most jobs in AI are research, and require a PhD.
Software Engineering: Boring topic. I like the testing and the documentation and stuff, but the project management aspect is killing me. No idea for any kind of thesis/project topic... but very very marketable.
I'm really leaning towards AI, with a certificate in SE... but I'm trying to figure out where I want to go with it. If I want to chase a PhD, I really need to do so before Chad and I decide to have kids... ie, while Chad is still in school.
I don't know... but I can't pick a major professor until I pick a concentration (works like that for some reason).
Worship time is... for worship. Not for socialization, or gossip, or show-off music stuff (no matter how good the band is), or for any kind of showing off how cool you are in any way shape or form.
It is certainly not a time to entertain the person next to you with a running commentary on your day and life in general. Especially if people are, you know, trying to listen to the sermon, or concentrate on the words to the music, or actually participate in worship in any way. Save your catty remarks until the service is over. Then have at it. If there is a break in the service for some reason (like for everyone who is finished worshiping to leave, which is kind of a silly idea... but that's another tangent), and you are instructed to either stay or to leave quietly, do not stay and carry on a 2-5 minute conversation (shouted over the worship music)with a friend over who has more homework than who, and when you are going to be home. Go outside. Talk there. Go back into the service if you feel like it. When you are done talking.
And don't act like you own the place. It was there long before you were, an likely will still exist when you leave. It would run perfectly fine without you, you are not the glue that holds the place together. So... Enjoy the fact that you are there. And have some respect for your upperclassmen, no matter if their personality "meshes" with yours or not... it's a campus ministy, not the United Methodist version of Survivor. The object is to bring more people in, not kick out (or piss off until they go home) people who are already there.
But what do I know. I'm not a member of our "strong" Freshman class. I am a gradute student, and not a preppy rich brat, therefore I am not so cool.
ok. So there have been some complaints about my last post. So I have some things to say.
One. This is not, nor has it ever been, a G-rated blog. For the most part, I try to keep it "work-friendly" so that my friends in the real world can read it. However. If I have something to say, I'm going to say it. And if you have a problem with it... deal with it. Or don't read. I have not the patience nor the want-to to make my personal weblog conform to whatever standards other people wish to impose on me.
Two. I chose that statement to make a point. Because I am fast burning out on people who spend all their time hanging out and goofing off, and put off their homework until the last minute, don't get it done, and complain about their bad grades. Especially when the same people complain that I never hang out with them anymore. (Before you get all pissed and take this personally, there are several people who fit this description). I thought the language in the statement, unaltered and in the form I heard it, made the point very nicely. Sometimes bad language (when used in small doses) can provide the emphasis needed... and, although I hardly think anyone will change their homework habits over it, I thought this was something that I wanted to emphasize.
Three. I have a very very short fuse this week. Consequently, I feel the need to make my points very clear. And I have very little problem saying exactly what I mean. This is not a typical thing for me. So... I will take advantage of it, while it lasts. I'll be over it eventually.
Four. I am not responsible for anyone who reads this blog. Yes, I know that people link to me. Yes, I know that younger people, ie, middle and high schoolers, have the potential to read this. However. I cannot censor my thoughts here so as to not offend or corrupt whoever may happen to come across this site. I am linked on Google. This is a public blog. That means that anyone has the possiblity to find and or read my blog. If this offends you... I'm sorry. I really am. Go read Yahoo News. It might offend you less.
I guess that's about it, for now. The main point is... although lately this has been a link repository, it is in fact, and will always be, my personal blog. So treat it as such. If this means you have to delete all your links to me because I used the words fuck and masturbate in the same sentence... then do so.
So I'm sitting in this class, and it's boring. I mean. Really. I think this teacher (I won't post her name, just in case) is the only perosn in the world who could make this stuff sooooo comfusing and soooo boring.
And the one class I really want to take next semester... she teaches. At 8am.
Only my love for AI will get me up for that class...
Yeah... another developer tool I'll only be able to afford if they put it on MSDNAA (ie, it's free). Although, I think for my current needs, .NET works fine. So the upgrade is just for coolness value, I guess.
So if C# and Java 1.5 are essentially the same... why don't we trash C#? I mean... I guess variety is a good thing, but Java has been around longer... and I have a terrible hatred for C# (which, in fairness, may be an unreasonable bias, but still).
While the newest Microsoft system (Media Center 2005) looks interesting... it has it's critics... and I don't think we're gonna buy it because it will be insanely expensive. And while I'm sure Chad and I could find a use for it (Mythbusters burned to DVD comes to mind).. . not sure I want to pay for it. I wonder what the chances are that it'll be added to the Academic Alliance site... Prolly not too great.
Somewhere behind me, I'm pretty sure someone is playing StarCraft. He has the sound turned down, but I can hear the Marines and Tanks and stuff talking.
ok... now I know it's StarCraft... Kerrigan just said "I'm waitin' on you!"
Dude. I love/hate spam subjects lines. I just got one that says (no joke) "Pregnancy and Sex link Established." Wow! Imagine the scientific breakthrough that brought this jewel of biological knowledge... and all this time, I thought it was something in the water.
This is for David, although I'm sure he's already seen it as it is a NASA bulletin, and as he has recently done research on astronaut poop. I jsut thought it was funny.
I finally gave up on all the extra stuff (like beating all the tournaments), and beat Kingdom Hearts last night (I had to buy it to actually beat it, as Caleb reclaimed his copy some time ago, but I think it was $20 well spent). At the end, I had all the dalmatians, all the trinities, I had beaten all the hidden bosses, and locked every world. Yay for me. For doing all this extra cool stuff... I got to see the super cool extra ending sequence, which basically set us up for the sequels, the first of which is due this fall sometime. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories looks awesome... and I just happen to have a Game Boy SP... I'm so getting it as soon as it comes out. Kingdom Hearts II is due to be released sometime next year... and Chad and I'll be waiting at the GameStop for that one the day it comes out. Oh yeah.
Having never actually beaten a video game before (except Tetris, which doesn't count), I feel very satisfied. And will probably start a new game like, today.
k. So I posted buttons for some of the webcomics I read semi-regularly (that is, I read six months of posts... about every six months) :-) The list is not complete, but it's a start.
WTF? I mean, really... so many questions about that... like, how? What was he wearing? Did he wake up one morning and decide he wanted a chicken neck, and take a cleaver and cut the first thing that looked sort of like it? Or did he actually have a chicken neck, and something else got on the cutting board by mistake? So weird...
Missed this yesterday, but i feel like it's worth posting here:
Mercury 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper died yesterday, at the age of 77. Slowly but surely, all my heros are dying. And very few of the Shuttle astronauts seem to be as charasmatic, or something like that (there are a few very notable exceptions)... Maybe as spaceflight has (had) become so routine, the people who fly seem more mudane and normal. Or maybe it's because there's just a whole lot of Shuttle astronauts, and only seven Mecury astronauts (and small numbers of Gemini and Apollo astronauts as well).
Poker is fun. I beat Chad, and the whole RPG group.... but didn't make it to the semi-finals, because the other guys at my table were punks and sat on their chips when it was close to time (timed games are t3h suck).
And a fun Star Wars link, which Matt sent me, but since he doesn't have a blog I can post it without really having "stolen" it ... ha ha.
Hey... anyone who wants to watch some fun, there's a Texas Hold'em tournament at the Sanderson tonight... should start around 6 or so. I'll be playing... so wish me luck :-)
So the game sucked. Which I sort of expected... But, on the ontehr hand, I harbored some hope. Because, after all, it was Vanderbilt. But alas, they kicked our... tails.
But the trip itself was good. We had a lot of fun. Hung out with Andrew and Kelly, ate at the Hard Rock... Rode the bus there and back... went to the Opry Mills mall... generally had fun. So that made up for the game. Somewhat.
At least the next game is against UAB. If we lose to them, there's a pretty good chance we can book Starkville Acadamy for homecoming last year.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
