Overview of a "typical" day... So since I never have anything interesting to blog about, I thought I'd outline a typical day so that you people know what I do all day (you know, the stuff that's too boring to blog about).
Sometime between 5am and 6:30am (depending on how ambitious I am being), my alarm goes off. I hit it about a hundred and fifty times before getting up, because it's really hard to get out of the most comfortable bed in the world. I end up actually out of bed between 6am and 7:30am (typically, closer to 7 or 7:30). I try and find something semi-professional to wear to work (why doesn't the laundry wash itself?!)... let the dogs out... stumble into the kitchen and make sammichs. Two sammichs, one for me and one for Chad. Both with low fat cheese and lean lunch meat (because we're trying to eat healthy or something). I pack the rest of my lunch (fruit, yogurt, and propel fitness water), and somehow manage to grab a muffin or some other kind of vaugely healthy breakfast food while running out the door.
I drive. For like, an hour. And listen to an audio book (just finished: "Blink: the power of thinking without thinking", by Malcolm Gladwell). Then I finially get to work.
After having to show or swipe my badge three times at three different places (I mean really... you would think we were military or something), I make it to my office... And sit down at my computer. Where I stay, working dilegently, for you know, 8 hours or so. Currently, I'm working on a variety of projects that include icons, gui components, and trying to make sense of way too much source code written by way too many different people. Interestingly enough, one of my projects has generated enough interest that I'll be making presentations on it to two different groups of people in the next month. Typically, I eat lunch at my desk, because I think it's stupid to burn an hour on lunch when I'm eating a sammich by myself anyway.
Then I drive. For like, an hour. And listen to an audio book. (next week: A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleline L'Engle).
I get home and let the dogs out and cook dinner (why don't the dishes wash themselves?!)... typically, we finish eating dinner just in time to go to karate or go sign on to the computers and roleplay. Unless it's Monday or Friday, when we either end up watching a movie or finding some other way to totally waste time.
Then I try and go to bed. I have the best of intentions of going to bed at like, 10pm, but I hardly ever manage that. I make it to bed between 11pm and midnight...
So yeah. I am totally blogging from work right now, because if I didn't blog from work, I would never be able to blog.
I have still only logged like, 10 hours on Kingdom Hearts II, which makes me sad. I played for an hour and a half the other night while Chad was playing Civ 4 with Brian, and all I really accomplished was making my thumbs hurt. *sigh*
This weekend, our time will be taken up by lusting after the house we want, and watching Clerks (on DVD on Friday night) and Clerks II (in the theater on Saturday).
The world is funny and disturbing place. Just thought you should know.
In Memphis for Easter... Must think of something fun to do Monday afternoon, to celebrate William's birthday. And something fun to do next weekend, to celebrate mine :) (note: Chad will be LARPing either Friday or Saturday, so plan party night for then *wink*)
Not really much else new... got my schedule for the summer and fall... classes look good, mostly, times look great (no 8ams!). Thinking about staying on after that, as long as I'm here... maybe I'd make it to a PhD. Or not. "Terminal degree" is such a depressing term. Sound like a disease... "I'm sorry to inform you, ma'am, but you have a terminal degree." *sigh*
anyway... I need to run away, and like, sleep or something. Or play kingdom hearts... oooooooh. Gameboy. Fun.... shiney... hmm.
heh. I love Christmas break. No more spending my break rushing to drive siblings and parents to work at awful hours of the morning (and then go to work myself)... no, this year I stay up all night playing videogames... and sleep all day. Very very nice. I haven't had time to really play video games since.... before midterms. *sigh*.
And now the moment you have all been waiting for (or not)... my thoughts on Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. Actually, I like it. Which is good, since i went through Hell, two Wal-marts and a Best Buy to get it (I am begining to think that hell and Wal-mart resemble each other somewhat...). But I digress. The new combat system.... is ok. I like it, I manage to kick butt with it (most of the time). I guess they couldn't manage the exploding menu thing from the first one on the GBA. But they worked the card system into the plot very nicely. The plot is also very cool, at least as far as I've gotten in it (I'm between the 10th and 11th floors, there are 13). And rumor has it that once I beat the game as Sora I can play the Riku part of the game (which is different than Sora's game). This makes me happy. As far as time spent... it's about an hour a floor for the lower floors, about an hour and a half for the upper floors so far, and about 15 minutes for the Winnie the Pooh floor. I think I've spent about 12 hours on my ten floors. All in all, I think the game is success (but not sure how well everyone else liked it... Chad hates the card system).
In other news, Chad and I are in Huntsville for another couple of days. We're leaving the 23rd or 24th. And we'll be going to Memphis for a week or so, then home... For school to start :-) (I have to finish Kingdome Hearts before then).
Anyway, gotta run now... need to like, visit with my family or something. :-)
omg. I live in a void of technology. Kingdom Heats: Chain of Memories came out yesterday... And like any good groupie, I went to GameStop to get one. They didn't have it. Neither did Wal-Mart. Forget for a moment the fact that I can't actually open the box until tomorrow night... I want to have it, to hold in my hand, to giv eme the extra incentive to finish. *sigh*
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.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
