Happy thoughts? Think happy thoughts for me tomorrow morning... I take my Oral Comprehensive Exam for my Masters at 10am... If I pass, I get a masters degree. If I don't pass, I have to try again next semester. No pressure or anything :-)
Your life has been 32% difficult. Based on your family, money, political context, and personal situation -- during the important years of your development -- it appears your life was AVERAGE. What does this mean?
Well, the "difficulty" of your life is a measure of how rough you had it. Relative to the world, you had a pretty normal childhood. You probably had a typical mixture of advantages and disadvantages. At one time the disadvantanges might've even seemed impossible to overcome. But look at you now!
I'm not sure what "success" means to you, but whatever it is, you can achieve it. When you do, it'll be very impressive.
Weekend Happenings So lots of stuff happened this weekend, which is interesting because nothing really happened this weekend...
We went to Memphis. And Chelsea turned 18. And we went out to eat... at which time Chad panicked his mother for like, 30 seconds, which was funny. We hung out with Brian, and watched Sky High (good), and ate out, and returned an iPod in hopes of getting a nano, only to discover that there are no Nanos anywhere in the south. And we played poker (and I won), and no one did any homework, really... And we visited with Krys and Manda, and ofught with the credit union, and brought home a cat who was living under Chad's mustang.
The cat has no name, yet. But we're working on that.
In other happy news, I wrote a lab for the class I'm teaching, and my instructor liked it a lot and -mail it to Dr. Reese, who used to teach the class before she was promoted to dean of education (or something like that), and she really liked it. And told me so. Yay.
And in sad news, we returned the Bose system, because it wouldn't play Indiana Jones. And wouldn't work with our current av devices, such as the playstation, or the media center. And htere was a part to mek it work, but it cost another $200, and if we installed it the system would no longer work with the TV. So we might get speakers, eventually, or something, but no Bose for us right now.
Fall Break! Yay! Fall break officially starts now! errr... actually, when I get the dishes done so we can actually leave the house. And I don't guess it's really a break, as I have to complete a take-home test and do homework and stuff over the weekend.
But at least I'm done grading. And I won't have anything to grade all of next week. Yay!
I'm frustrated by your apathy... I get extremely amazingly frustrated when grading labs. Like, throwing my pen at the wall frustrated. I don't understand not doing a lab because you don't know how and you didn't bother to ask.
Real Arcade Just in case anyone wondered, Real Arcade is awesome. Especially if, for some reason, you happen to have several free game tokens. I like free games.
And free stuff, although maybe not as much as Chad. :-) I think tonight, I'll finally have time to install the software for my (free) digital camera, and get some use out of it... maybe I'll take some ebay pics or something, and actually sell some of this crap that I said I was going to sell. And who knows... I might come up with some cool pics of various action figures on the next big trip we take (which I think will be Thanksgiving).
I need to recruit people to go dancing with me... Sometime before I go to Texas.
More Serenity Here's a take on Serenity by Tycho, of PennyArcade fame. Really it doesn't say much new, but reinforces the fact that, yes, I must watch the series. And that at some point during the watching of the series, I'll be like, "Oh... Suddenly it all makes so much sense." :-)
Tupelo here we come! I think we're going to tupelo for dinner tonight. At the very least, we're going out for steak.
Richard has happy news, news that apparently made him dance around the room when he found out (and I don't blame him)... he has a job offer, doing something he likes to do, working for a big well-known company. (as no one who reads this knows Richard, besides me and Chad, I don't think I'm really stealing his thunder here).
The only problem... it's in Seattle. No so much of a problem for Richard, but you know, kinda sad for us (although the logicy side of me admits that we are moving to Houston in January anyway...). At least now I guess we have an excuse for traveling to Washington (I've never been there).
Anyway. A yummy steak dinner will be enjoyed by all tonight. Yay!
Make a Bong? This is a google cached page from a site on bongs... mostly how to make them. Come up when I was ego surfing on google. Thought it was funny...
Serenity So I went and saw Serenity last night (Saturday night). And I thought it was an ok movie. Not a great movie, not the best movie in the world, not "the next Star Wars", just ok.
Apparently, this makes me odd.
Given, I have't seen Firefly (which makes me an oddity in the geek world, I know)... So I didn't have the it's-going-to-be-awesome fan-girl attachment to the film going into it.
But yeah. Things I liked about the movie: The plot was fairly interesting, the characters were decently well developed (having a season of character development helped), the acting was ok, and they did some cool things with memory and madness and stuff. Things I didn't like: They overdid the CG, given their budget. The movie was full of CG, but it wasn't quite all there (with the exception of a few scenes where it was really good). I think they could have done less CG and gotten better quality, and it would have made the movie look better overall. The dialog was a little odd... like charachters would talk normally for several minutes, and then break some weird grammer rule or something, and it sounded out of place (I'm told this fits with the TV show). Also, the camera angels were weird, and they would move the camera so fast that the background strobed (which generally makes me sick)... and they did this a lot. The fight scenes weren't as well done as they could have been... but they were interesting, at least.
Anyway. Enough for now. I have to sleep or something.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
Your life has been 32% difficult.