Wow. My roommate amazes me. He pulled his little TV out of storage to hook it up just because he can't study when it's quiet. I could raise a little hell if it would help. But he just askes me to stop. Oh well. Couple more days and I'm gonna be out at mom's (with no real internet). Gotta get broadband... Gonna get on WoW for a little while and go to bed now. See you all later!
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
27-Apr-2006
Some People...
Some people make me wish I wasn't human. They are that stupid. I don't even want to have any association what-so-ever with them. If I could stop breathing air and eating food and change into the complete opposite of a human, I would be happier (because of them). You see, when I'm driving in downtown Nashville, I wonder who the next person to almost kill me will be. Like the four (perhaps even five) vehicles that were turning left AFTER their green arrow went away and my light turned green for me to cross the intersection they where obscuring). Jeez, people! Just go learn to drive or get off the road. Or at least get caught.
</Rant>
Okay, cooling off now. I was downtown because I got arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. Nah, you should know me better than that. Not my style. If I'm gonna go to jail, it'll be over doing 120 MPH through metro on I-65
. Amber and I were shooting more footage for our final project in Video Art and Web Broadcasting class. I got to be a homeless person, and I freaked a few poor business men and women out. And our good friends Nathan and Emily helped us out. Thanks you two!
This has been a lot of fun because Amber and I keep filming out takes for the heck of it. I need to get more serious about this because I just want to get it done. Everyone is at the point where they just want it all to end. I am there too. I graduate in a week, and it feels like I have a month of work to do. This is what it feels like to be screwed. Been there, felt that before. But for now, I'm going to bed. TTYL!!!
Some people make me wish I wasn't human. They are that stupid. I don't even want to have any association what-so-ever with them. If I could stop breathing air and eating food and change into the complete opposite of a human, I would be happier (because of them). You see, when I'm driving in downtown Nashville, I wonder who the next person to almost kill me will be. Like the four (perhaps even five) vehicles that were turning left AFTER their green arrow went away and my light turned green for me to cross the intersection they where obscuring). Jeez, people! Just go learn to drive or get off the road. Or at least get caught.
</Rant>
Okay, cooling off now. I was downtown because I got arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. Nah, you should know me better than that. Not my style. If I'm gonna go to jail, it'll be over doing 120 MPH through metro on I-65
. Amber and I were shooting more footage for our final project in Video Art and Web Broadcasting class. I got to be a homeless person, and I freaked a few poor business men and women out. And our good friends Nathan and Emily helped us out. Thanks you two! This has been a lot of fun because Amber and I keep filming out takes for the heck of it. I need to get more serious about this because I just want to get it done. Everyone is at the point where they just want it all to end. I am there too. I graduate in a week, and it feels like I have a month of work to do. This is what it feels like to be screwed. Been there, felt that before. But for now, I'm going to bed. TTYL!!!
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
25-Apr-2006
See You Later
Wow, I never noticed how much people say this phrase. Today was fun...
. I'll start at the beginning, though it's not directly related.
Nobody knows how to make me feel worse than I already do except a very select group of people (wait, are they people?). I'm doing okay having a perfectly mediocre day (despite the lack of sleep of late) when one of my professors tells me that even though I was sick for a month, I'm still getting marked down for turning in a project. I guess I'm kinda happy about that, because as late as it was, I should have gotten a zero as the syllabus states. But I don't understand how something I have no control over can cause me to not do well. I'm still gonna pass the class (if I ever get this final project finished), but it just makes me want to quit. I've got senioritus extensius (you know, wanting to get out of here a.s.a.p.), and that is only compounded by my continual sickness.
My next class was fine. I did homework on my laptop the entire time while taking notes on a few of the main points of the lecture. It isn't just my laptop that can multitask. I can too. Then it was off to chapel a few minutes before class was over. It was a slow service, two DVDs, no PPT, only three microphones, and Robert taking pictures of a little awards segment. I hurried back to my apartment and started laundry just before mom picked up some stuff I packed up and the CD to mail to Dana I made for her to enjoy. I had twp PB&Js for lunch before rushing to tennis class before my laundry was done while I was researching something I heard about recently.
Tennis was okay. Got one of the matches out of the way that we have to play before the final. Everything was perfect until I got back to my room. I picked up my laundry and hurriedly jumped into the shower. While washing my face, I accidentally scrubbed too hard while I was washing my face with a washrag saturated in Dove bar soap, resulting in a very large amount of soap being forced under my eyelids (still not sure exactly how it happened). I spent a good five minutes rinsing it out with the school's water (which didn't help much, the chlorine just made it hurt more). Then security gave me a ride over to the clinic where the nurse helped me rinse it out more with sterile solution and let me keep the bottle for the rest of the evening of flushing that I'll be doing every so often. I finally got to work 45 minutes late. Now I'm sitting here trying to focus through the burning. It looks like someone tore the layer of white off my eye leaving a red layer of blood there. At least it doesn't seem to have swollen much.
And I was having such a depressing day. Why did it all of a sudden have to go and turn into purgatory. I was fine sitting on the ridge of the valley of the shadow of death. But for some reason, I had to slip off the edge and roll down the side a little. Have you ever lost the use of one eye for any amount of time?
It really freaks you out when you are a web developer. You can't do that job so well if you can't see. I've always wondered what it would be like to spend a day or a week blindfolded. I just never have tried it. Not many companies are looking to hire a blind guy.
The first thing I thought of was all the lectures in Physical Science class about why it was so important to wear goggles that were always followed with the demonstration of an egg being broken into a petri dish and then adding a little hydrochloric acid (I think it was). The result was always the proteins solidifying and hardening the egg. Then the teacher would tell us that our eyes had similar proteins in it. I don't remember measurement conversion tables or anything like that. I just remember the "what not to do" lectures (and how I wondered what it would be like to feel something like that). If this is what soap feels like, I think I'll settle with this mental lesson and not move on to anything else.
Hey! I can hold my eye open for a few seconds at a time now. I think it's getting a little better. I should be okay tomorrow. I just hope no one calls tonight. I'm wearing sun glasses to avoid some of the questions I know people will ask. Well, back to work.
Congrats to everyone who is graduating with me. I'll see you all May 6th.
Wow, I never noticed how much people say this phrase. Today was fun...
. I'll start at the beginning, though it's not directly related. Nobody knows how to make me feel worse than I already do except a very select group of people (wait, are they people?). I'm doing okay having a perfectly mediocre day (despite the lack of sleep of late) when one of my professors tells me that even though I was sick for a month, I'm still getting marked down for turning in a project. I guess I'm kinda happy about that, because as late as it was, I should have gotten a zero as the syllabus states. But I don't understand how something I have no control over can cause me to not do well. I'm still gonna pass the class (if I ever get this final project finished), but it just makes me want to quit. I've got senioritus extensius (you know, wanting to get out of here a.s.a.p.), and that is only compounded by my continual sickness.
My next class was fine. I did homework on my laptop the entire time while taking notes on a few of the main points of the lecture. It isn't just my laptop that can multitask. I can too. Then it was off to chapel a few minutes before class was over. It was a slow service, two DVDs, no PPT, only three microphones, and Robert taking pictures of a little awards segment. I hurried back to my apartment and started laundry just before mom picked up some stuff I packed up and the CD to mail to Dana I made for her to enjoy. I had twp PB&Js for lunch before rushing to tennis class before my laundry was done while I was researching something I heard about recently.
Tennis was okay. Got one of the matches out of the way that we have to play before the final. Everything was perfect until I got back to my room. I picked up my laundry and hurriedly jumped into the shower. While washing my face, I accidentally scrubbed too hard while I was washing my face with a washrag saturated in Dove bar soap, resulting in a very large amount of soap being forced under my eyelids (still not sure exactly how it happened). I spent a good five minutes rinsing it out with the school's water (which didn't help much, the chlorine just made it hurt more). Then security gave me a ride over to the clinic where the nurse helped me rinse it out more with sterile solution and let me keep the bottle for the rest of the evening of flushing that I'll be doing every so often. I finally got to work 45 minutes late. Now I'm sitting here trying to focus through the burning. It looks like someone tore the layer of white off my eye leaving a red layer of blood there. At least it doesn't seem to have swollen much.
And I was having such a depressing day. Why did it all of a sudden have to go and turn into purgatory. I was fine sitting on the ridge of the valley of the shadow of death. But for some reason, I had to slip off the edge and roll down the side a little. Have you ever lost the use of one eye for any amount of time?
It really freaks you out when you are a web developer. You can't do that job so well if you can't see. I've always wondered what it would be like to spend a day or a week blindfolded. I just never have tried it. Not many companies are looking to hire a blind guy.
The first thing I thought of was all the lectures in Physical Science class about why it was so important to wear goggles that were always followed with the demonstration of an egg being broken into a petri dish and then adding a little hydrochloric acid (I think it was). The result was always the proteins solidifying and hardening the egg. Then the teacher would tell us that our eyes had similar proteins in it. I don't remember measurement conversion tables or anything like that. I just remember the "what not to do" lectures (and how I wondered what it would be like to feel something like that). If this is what soap feels like, I think I'll settle with this mental lesson and not move on to anything else.
Hey! I can hold my eye open for a few seconds at a time now. I think it's getting a little better. I should be okay tomorrow. I just hope no one calls tonight. I'm wearing sun glasses to avoid some of the questions I know people will ask. Well, back to work.
Congrats to everyone who is graduating with me. I'll see you all May 6th.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
22-Apr-2006
Speechless
I'm at a loss for words to describe the weekend I've had. The hike with Jessica and Amber was amazing. Last night we hiked 3 miles in a steady rain through knee deep water where we couldn't find the trail. We finally decided where we wanted to spend the night and hunkered down for some rest before completing the hiking experience the next day (after the rain stopped at 5 am). Today we hiked 11 miles to wrap it all up stopping at Double Falls for lunch and having breakfast before getting underway after waking up. I love camping food, it's so easy to make (open bag, insert fork or spoon).
After we got back, I was a little late getting to the meeting point for an evening of dancing (tick check took longer than I wanted it to, but after having several crawl DOWN my legs on the ride home, it was needed). This week was McKindree as the schedule stated. I learned some really cool new couples Charleston moves that I worked on all night.
If I could do anything for a weekend once a month, it would be exactly what I did this weekend. I'm gonna have to do this more often. My brother and I talked about both driving to the Smokeys and camping for a few days while hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail. We'll see what we can come up with.
To Jessica, thanks for putting it all together for the hike.
To Amber, thanks for trooping it out with us mental cases and for doing such a great job with the trails and fording in the river...
To all the follows I danced with tonight, keep up the great work!
I'm at a loss for words to describe the weekend I've had. The hike with Jessica and Amber was amazing. Last night we hiked 3 miles in a steady rain through knee deep water where we couldn't find the trail. We finally decided where we wanted to spend the night and hunkered down for some rest before completing the hiking experience the next day (after the rain stopped at 5 am). Today we hiked 11 miles to wrap it all up stopping at Double Falls for lunch and having breakfast before getting underway after waking up. I love camping food, it's so easy to make (open bag, insert fork or spoon).
After we got back, I was a little late getting to the meeting point for an evening of dancing (tick check took longer than I wanted it to, but after having several crawl DOWN my legs on the ride home, it was needed). This week was McKindree as the schedule stated. I learned some really cool new couples Charleston moves that I worked on all night.
If I could do anything for a weekend once a month, it would be exactly what I did this weekend. I'm gonna have to do this more often. My brother and I talked about both driving to the Smokeys and camping for a few days while hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail. We'll see what we can come up with.
To Jessica, thanks for putting it all together for the hike.
To Amber, thanks for trooping it out with us mental cases and for doing such a great job with the trails and fording in the river...
To all the follows I danced with tonight, keep up the great work!
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
18-Apr-2006
You know it's bad when your IT group thinks a RAID is where you run in, burn everything down, and loot (with a side of plundering).
Monday, April 17, 2006
Friday, April 14, 2006
14-Apr-2006
Gee, Brain, what are we going to do this weekend?
The same thing we do every weekend during the semester: get sick.
Yes, of all amazing things, I'm sick again (something like the stomach flue). I won't be getting much done. I'm heading out to Mom's. She and Richard stopped by to pick me up and take me out to their place where they can take care of me better. I'll see you all when I get back.
The same thing we do every weekend during the semester: get sick.
Yes, of all amazing things, I'm sick again (something like the stomach flue). I won't be getting much done. I'm heading out to Mom's. She and Richard stopped by to pick me up and take me out to their place where they can take care of me better. I'll see you all when I get back.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
12-Apr-2006
Why does ITS suck so bad? Because most of the staff doesn't know how to do their jobs. Don't get me started about just the secretary/guard dog/helpdesk worker. Sometimes I wonder if she knows anything about computers. My ping was between 1000 and 2000 all afternoon and evening. For those of you who don't game much, let me just tell
you
what
it
feels
like
to
try
and
play
online
when
you
can
only
move
your
person
every
two
minutes. I'm really ticked because that's the only release I have for all the stress of homework and graduation. This is driving me nuts. I just want to be done.
I finally finished project 2 for Video Art class. I don't like how it turned out. Too many things I want to change that I can't because of the limitations of the technology we work with. Oh well. Good thing I won't be doing video work for a living. I'm done. That's the important part. Now, Amber and I just have to get the final project done. It should be really good. We both just have too much stuff for other classes on top of this one.
I wish professors knew what working yourself through college was really like. None of them seem to care. "You just have to get it done" they tell me. I have choice words I would reply with if I didn't have self control. Many of them have roots that are four letters long.
Today, my department head even stopped me and asked if everything was okay. She was the first person who noticed without me having said anything to first (she approached me - seems like most people outside my close circle of friends I have to hint at for about 20 minutes before they notice). But, I didn't think I looked that bad that people could tell I'm low on sleep and sick of staying up till 03:00 to try and force the last few edits through to completion. Two and a half weeks. That's all I have to say about that. I'm outta here in two and a half weeks.
you
what
it
feels
like
to
try
and
play
online
when
you
can
only
move
your
person
every
two
minutes. I'm really ticked because that's the only release I have for all the stress of homework and graduation. This is driving me nuts. I just want to be done.
I finally finished project 2 for Video Art class. I don't like how it turned out. Too many things I want to change that I can't because of the limitations of the technology we work with. Oh well. Good thing I won't be doing video work for a living. I'm done. That's the important part. Now, Amber and I just have to get the final project done. It should be really good. We both just have too much stuff for other classes on top of this one.
I wish professors knew what working yourself through college was really like. None of them seem to care. "You just have to get it done" they tell me. I have choice words I would reply with if I didn't have self control. Many of them have roots that are four letters long.
Today, my department head even stopped me and asked if everything was okay. She was the first person who noticed without me having said anything to first (she approached me - seems like most people outside my close circle of friends I have to hint at for about 20 minutes before they notice). But, I didn't think I looked that bad that people could tell I'm low on sleep and sick of staying up till 03:00 to try and force the last few edits through to completion. Two and a half weeks. That's all I have to say about that. I'm outta here in two and a half weeks.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
6-Apr-2006
Meds... Dang it, Man 
I started taking DayQuil this morning. Lets hope it can help with
all the symptoms it says it can that I have. You know, the
headache, congestion, sore throat, aches and pains...
I really just need to go to bed, but one of my profs talked to me about
my absenses and I'm getting close to the limit. I'VE BEEN
SICK! I'm not missing class because I like skipping. Well,
here I am again. Waiting for him (he's late evry Tues/Thurs to
the 7:30).
I started taking DayQuil this morning. Lets hope it can help with
all the symptoms it says it can that I have. You know, the
headache, congestion, sore throat, aches and pains...
I really just need to go to bed, but one of my profs talked to me about
my absenses and I'm getting close to the limit. I'VE BEEN
SICK! I'm not missing class because I like skipping. Well,
here I am again. Waiting for him (he's late evry Tues/Thurs to
the 7:30).
Monday, April 3, 2006
3-Apr-2006
I Just Wanna... Get Better
Yay. I'm sick again. This is really getting old. I'm tired of being sick week after week. Can't I just get some sleep? I'm okay with work hours, I just wish I didn't have to get up so early. Eight o'clock would be perfect. Stay up till midnight, get up 8 hours later. Easy, right? Not when you have 7:30s every day. I missed church yesterday and all my classes this morning with a headache and some other symptoms.
Must Learn Patience
Still waiting for five orders to get here. I put them all in Thursday night, and most were processed by Friday night. It should all be here by next Friday unless this one place really drags its feet (which the reviews said it would). I'll be in better spirits if I'm feeling normal when that gets here.
Yay. I'm sick again. This is really getting old. I'm tired of being sick week after week. Can't I just get some sleep? I'm okay with work hours, I just wish I didn't have to get up so early. Eight o'clock would be perfect. Stay up till midnight, get up 8 hours later. Easy, right? Not when you have 7:30s every day. I missed church yesterday and all my classes this morning with a headache and some other symptoms.
Must Learn Patience
Still waiting for five orders to get here. I put them all in Thursday night, and most were processed by Friday night. It should all be here by next Friday unless this one place really drags its feet (which the reviews said it would). I'll be in better spirits if I'm feeling normal when that gets here.
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