I've just stayed up most of the night doing homework/programming/working on my website and now I still can't sleep. I got bored and decided I'd check live journal. I then realized I haven't updated in quite a while (my last update was in may of 2007).
So. Here goes.
My schedule this semester is probably more than I can handle. I won't go into the details, but I really have killed any hope of free time that I might have once taken for granted. Case and point, I've stayed up until 3am, I woke up today at 8 and have to wake up tomorrow at 7. and I'm not even studying for exams or finishing projects. I'm just doing regular 2nd week of class homework.
Because of this schedule I don't really have much else to update even though I haven't in well over a year. I'll try to think of the highlights.
About a year ago I cut my hair very short, and have kept it this way.
I lost my job working for the real estate company.
Charlie, the owner of that company and close friend of mine and my family, was re-diagnosed with cancer and died a few months ago.
I got a new job teaching rich children math.
6 or so months ago I started working for a physics professor here at USF and so whenever I would have had free time from school or work, I now spend it in a lab or a machine shop. And by working, I mean doing a lot of work, not working as in a job where I get a paycheck.
As a result of this I'm now trained to work in a physics machine shop.
I made a website. millerlab. Don't ask me what anything on there means. I don't really understand spintronics, I'm much happier when I get to spend time in the shop as apposed to the lab.
I'm officially majoring in Math and physics, and will probably graduate about a year late.
... And That's about it. No real drama or conflict or anything of that sort. pretty much just waking up going to school, going to work, studying, repeating. I am still with Virginia, so I do get to have fun every now and then. And up until recently I've been spending my weekends with high school friends in St. Pete.
Well, I think bed-time is in order. thanks for listening random computer server.
Of course you do. You're an imaginary entity I'm talking to through a computer, what else do you have to do?
So, I found out that I don't have credit for Comp II (aparently I didn't get a high enough score on the AP lit exam) so I decided I would take Comp II over summer A, along with Differential equations, and then take linear algebra over summer B (this would make it so I was pretty much caught up on my maths)
Being the dilligent student I am I signed up for these classes as soon as possible and purchased the text books online, this was around a month or so ago. Then yesterday I was looking at my schedule figuring out where on campus my classes were and what-not. I then noticed that my Comp class was in building DAV. I had never heard of this building so I looked it up, it is the david building... in St. Pete (which is NOT Tampa) so I check the class info and it is most definitely located at the st. petersburg campus .For those of you imaginary people reading this that don't know, st. pete is about an hour or so away from Tampa. This will of course not do as that would mean leaving for school to the comp class at around 6 or 7am, then leaving that class early to make it to differential equations, then leaving from there back to st. pete for work.
This of course is not a logical solution and will end with nothing but sour feelings for all involved (that being me, and whoever I crash into when I finally fall asleep driving back and forth however many times a day)
So I think I'm going to drop the DE class and just take Comp II during summer A, and I'll just move my stuff into a room I have here at work (I work for a real estate company that owns some hotels, and I have a room at one of them that I kind of live out of on the weekends)
This all means that I'll have way too much free time on my hands, so if anyone actually does read this, and wants to do anything during say the next... 6 weeks? feel free to contact me. Even it's not for anything entertaining, just so that I'm doing something.
On the upside, I've started reading Godel, Echer, Bach again, and I understand it MUCH better than I did when I first started reading it in middle school. I've also been reading non-math books (I'm about to finish Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle) I think after that I'd really like to read Ulysses by Joyce (I'm not sure if I could ever acctually do that, but I think it would be a very fun experience if I could, and would be a big step in the direction of victory in my constant unmedicated battle with ADD) and I suppose I'll also be reading whatever they tell me to read for this Comp II class (I'm not really sure what this class entails)
On a seperate note, I passed all of my classes this semester. This is normally a given, but this semester I did exceptionally poor, and wasn't really planning on passing a few of my classes. I ended up with a GPA of something like 2.5 or something for this semester, which brought my comulative down to like 3.5 (which really annoys me as I was almost at a 3.75 at the beggining fo this semester)
I've also signed up for fall classes and my current schedule looks something like this
Modern Physics Intermediate physics Lab Mathematical Methods in Physics Intermdiate Analysis I (and now I'll have to try to fit DE in there somewhere)
This schedule looks a little daunting, but at the same time I'm very excited about all of the classes, I was much more excited before I found out that I can't take early history of math as it is only offered from 4 - 6 (which wouldn't really work out as I generally go into work at 4)but I suppose that helps open up my schedule for DE
So. If you've read this far; you're really bored. I recomend you go outside now and run around and make airplane noises as I'm pretty sure you need a little of that in your life after spending how-ever-long reading about my class schedule conflicts and tentative reading list.
I don't really know how I did. But I don't really care too much either. As long as I don't have to take another chemistry class again, I really don't care about anything.
I don't like Chemistry. I don't understand Chemistry. And I don't really want to be taking Chemistry anymore.
Furthermore, at some point in time, I'm going to have to take a final for this class. This is the first time I've really felt like I was going to fail a final exam..... ... I should hire a chemistry tutor... and then pay them to take the test for me.
I decided to make the turkey, stuffing, and gravy for Virginia's entire family(for those of you who don't know, I'm a vegitarian)
I ended up with a very... very large turkey (24 pounds)
I couldn't find a big enough pot to defrost/brine it in so I used my camping cooler and bought a bag of ice, put the turkey in the cooler, put the cooler in my bath-tub. And thus defrosted and brined my turkey..... in my bath tub.... the epitome of sanitary cooking.
during the cooking process a good deal of the juice I was cooking it in spilled into the oven about 3 or 4 hours into cooking it; this caused the oven to burst into flames... I blew the fire out, the turkey remained unscathed... however the apartment smelled like a forest fire for about the next 5 hours.
The gravy took about 7 years to thicken, the stuffing took about as long to cook. This resulted in us being about an hour and a half late for the thanksgiving diner we were bringing the turkey too. Although as a result, most of the wine was already gone and Virginia's dad and aunt were both in a rather cheery mood by the time we got there =0)~ it wasn't so bad...
In the end though, the entire experience worked out perfectly. Everyone ate, drank, was merry, and left with about 3 pounds of left-over turkey.
If anyone is ever looking for an AMAZING turkey recipe. Check this out
I don't eat meat, but I did try some of this, and it was pretty amazing. The best part is the gravy. It has this lemony sugary taste too it that makes everything on your plate taste like candy. And it is easilly doubled to Accomidate a 24 pound turkey
Oh yeah, I also signed up for classes:
Calc III (yay! The math class I've been looking forward to for years!) Bridge to Abstract Mathematics (I don't know why I'm taking this. I don't need it for any of my majors, but I think it will be fun, maybe I'll minor in math or something) Physics II (after this I can finally take Modern physics and then I'll actually be a physics major) Physics II Lab (... waves!) Chem II Lab (... I've been avoiding this lab, I already took the lecture class, I just... don't like chemistry) Religion and Pop-culture (I'm now dual majoring in REligion and Physics, so this is my religion class this semester)
so, it comes to about 16 credit hours, not too much, not too little... I think it will be an enjoyable semester.
umm, answer these things? please? if you don't... I probably won't realize because I don't check my e-mail that often... but YOU'LL know you didn't. And... ummm. KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE. GEEEEE EEEEYYYYYEEEE JOOOOEEEEEEEE.
I'm sleepy. and I hate chemistry. I don't even want to exsist because that just means that MORE chemistry is going on this world. Who was the brilliant person that decided that I needed to take 2 semesters of chemistry in order to major in Physics. I just want a low B in this class, and then I'll never bother chemistry again, and chemistry will never bother me again. and everything will be GREAT.
1. Your Middle Name: 2. Age: 3. Single or Taken: 4. Favorite Movie: 5. Favorite Song: 6. Favorite Band/Artist: 7. Dirty or Clean: 8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
HERE COMES THE FUN 1. Do we know each other outside of LJ? 2. Whats your philosophy on life? 3. Would you have my back in a fight? 4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? 5. What is your favorite memory of us? 6. Would you give me a kidney? 7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: 8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick? 9. Can we get together and make a cake? 10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately? 11. Do you/have you talk(ed)crap about me? 12. Do you think I'm a good person? 13. Would you drive across country with me? 14. Do you think I'm attractive? 15. If you could change anything about me, would you? 16. What do you wear to sleep? 17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out? 18. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? 19. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you? 20. what do you think happened to the 28th thing?
Calc II (still about a year behind in my math) Physics I (hey look, I'm taking a course for my major, I may just graduate in 4 or 5 years) Physics I Lab (yep) Chemistry II (I don't like Chemistry. I don't want to take this class. I will be happy with a C) Religious Quest in Contemporary Film (This class involves watching movies, reading books, and discussing them in class and in papers. In return for this I get 4 credits in REL and 3 exit requirements.)
So, I'm only taking 15 credit hours. I ended up not taking my chem lab last minute, and then didn't have time to find another 3 credit hours to shove in there to give me my normal 18 credit hours. atleast this time some of them are worth something.
And finally,
Life Update
I Still spend the majority of my time at either work or school. I do however live with Virginia now, which is pretty amazing. So while my life is still a little too hectic, it is definitely less lonely and more enjoyable than usual. So far living together is a definite positive in my life, and I'm not too worried about that changing. Time to go watch Ground-hog's day and compare it to the Life of the Buddha... I find this little offensive personally, but I suppose I'll live.
Finding vagina on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck!
Czar Paul I banished vagina to Siberia for marching out of step!
The only Englishman to become vagina was Nicholas Breakspear, who was vagina from 1154 to 1159.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn into vagina.
Vagina is the sacred animal of Thailand!
Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw vagina into a volcano it would stop erupting.
Plato believed that the souls of melancholy people would be reincarnated into vagina.
Astronauts get taller when they are in vagina.
The deepest part of vagina is over 35,000 feet deep.
Native Americans never actually ate vagina; killing such a timid prey was thought to indicate laziness.
Okay, back to my paper now.
And then I'll go ahead and put a crap load of gold fish in a dark room. I mean, I'm not saying that I believe it will work... but... hey, that would be better than a money tree.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and breasts would be as small as a pea.
If you chew gum while peeling breasts then it will stop you from crying.
The National Heart Foundation recommends eating breasts at least three times a week.
Breasts became extinct in England in 1486!
Breasts is the only bird that can swim but not fly.
Breasts is 984 feet tall.
The first breasts was made in 1853, and had no pedals!
Breasts was originally green, and actually contained cocaine.
Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil "influence" of breasts.
And.
I went to Guatemala. I'm now in Michigan. I'm going to Niagara falls and New York City Tommorow. After that I'm going to North Carolina. Then back to Florida for school.
I'm currently writing a paper to turn in to warrent my getting SIX 400 level credit hours for being in Guatemala and drinking and going to clubs with my professor for 2 weeks.
That's my life for the last month or so that I haven't updated.
Oh yeah, my boss got surgery for this lung cancer, he's still in the hospital. Good news: no more cancer. Bad news: lung won't stop collapsing.
ummmmmm... I'll be back the 23rd, I may write some things. oh yeah. Photobucket.com under the name Guate2006, then the sub-folder Dustin. That will get you to about 100 of my pictures from Guatemala. yayyyy.
I know I say this a lot. but this paper I'm writing for this class. is really REALLy the worst paper I've ever written. I'm getting pretty rusty in my writing. My writing sounds like I write sales brochures and magazine advertisements for a real estate company for a living. Oh right. I do...
1. I'll respond with something random I like about you. 2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you. 3. I'll name something we should do together. 4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me). 5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you. 6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you. 7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you. 8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.
you get the idea.
anywho. Life has been relatively slow lately, mostly just revolving around school (haven't done much "real" work lately, mostly just hotel stuff)
I picked my summer and fall classes officially. They are the exact same as I posted in my last entry. Because of course, my life is just that predictable.
other than that, not much going on. Virginia's Birthday is toooommmmoooorrrooowww! so that's pretty exciting, she'll be 19, and since I'm a little over half a year older than her, that means there's less than half a year until I'm 20. I will be very glad to no longer be concerdered a teenager. I mean, not many people concider me a teenager, or even know how old I am, but still... middle class white male American teenager has to be the worst stereotypical group to be lumped in with.
Oh yeah, I saw Hard Candy. Everyone else should too, because it was awesome.
I'm also getting back like 700 for my taxes, which will of course be filtered directly into my paying for classes and my trip, I was going to think about buying something crazy like a violin, or a telescope, or a digital camcorder... but then I realized that would just mean that I'd in turn have to ask my dad for money in order to pay for my classes in the fall, so it really isn't fair for him to have to pay more because I want to buy random things.... not to mention the fact that I don't actually know how to play a violin, so that would just be foolish.
(Normally I wouldn't do something like this, but I do enjoy some of the things that have happened on October 19th 3 INTERESTING FACTS:
202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. 1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War. 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2 BIRTHS:
1945 - John Lithgow, American actor 1969 - Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor
AND A DEATH: 1216 - King John died at Newark Castle
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With that out of the way... ummm... My passport came in the mail. And. I just ate lunch.
My summer line up of classes looks like it will be:
Session A:
Calc I (yeah I know, I STILL haven't Calc I, LAY OFF!) 4 credits Chem I and Lab (again, STILL haven't taken Chem I) 4 credits
Session B (my trip to Guatemala!): 6 credits in Latin American Studies
anywho, that gives me 14 credits for this summer, 8 of which are actually useful! Next fall I may even start taking physics classes, as of right now I am the worst physics major ever, with a total of 0 credits in both physics and math. I have 10 astronomy credits though, so if USF offered an astronomy major, I'd be well on my way.
Next fall I'm looking at these classes:
Physics I + Lab 4 Calc II 4 Chem II + Lab. 4 Religious Quest in Contemp Films 4
I need to pick another class, probably another religion class.
I think that's about all I have to say... other than I need to talk to the religious studies advisor guy and see exactly what I need to do to officially minor in religion.
So with that out of the way. I'll go on to explaining what's going on with me.
I'm deffinitly going to Guatamala this summer. My passport is on its way, I paid my $500 deposit, I have enough money saved up to pay the rest of the trip expenses, all of my paperwork is turned in, I have the aproval form for the course credits, etc, etc. YAY!
For those of you who don't know this already, I'm going to Guatamala over the summer (a 4 week trip) to study Ancient Maya stuff and contemporary latin american activism stuff. I'm pretty excited.
My job has been going GREAT. I've been doing a lot more driving around and helping out other properties of Charlie's, as well as doing work for him and his wife on a more personal level, and since his wife is the one who does payroll, that means my checks have been bigger =0)~
My Dad was down for Spring break which was fun. I got him a room at the hotel I work at most of the time (The Bayside Inn on Treasure Island Beach) and he seemed to really relax and enjoy himself. He also gave me the $500 for the down payment on the Mayan trip, so that was pretty nice of him.
My Dad left at 2:30pm on the 20th of this month, my mom flew in to town at 11am on that same day. She's staying down about a mile or so from the hotel where Charlie has put her up in one of the "Sunset Beach Condo's" that are currently for sale. He's also going to try to help her fix her credit and see if she can start working down here full time. If he can do that, he'll also help her buy the condo she's staying at. That would be pretty nifty. As for a health update on Charlie, I don't know if he's just gone insane, but he's EXTREMELY happy about everything right now. He's getting his treatment, and it will be about 2 months before he gets the surgery to fully remove the cancer on his lung. He said he really wished he could go to Guatamala with me, but the surgery falls about a week before the trip. He apologized, I told him he was insane, it was fun. Again, for those of you who don't know, Charlie is my boss, he's 70 years old and was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago. He's had it before about 10 years ago, and he had a chunk of his lung removed, now he's going to have another chunk removed. He's still in great spirits, and I swear he has more energy than anyone I know. I think he's having some Bruce Bannor-type reaction to whatever radation he's being belted with.
okay. well. Time for my Contemperary thinking in Astronomy class. Fun fun fun!
So I've been thinking quite a bit lately about my future; what I'm going to do, if it's the "best thing" for me to do, if by doing this am I going to fulfill my potential, am I going to be bettering the universe and will I be giving the universe full rights to better me as well? etc. etc. etc.
I also spend a good time thinking about art. That is, would it be better for me to persue some lifestyle more devoted to art (music, writing, philosophy, etc) I used to think that art was the greatest thing in life. That I would do everything in my power to create art and/or aid in someone else creating it. I realized also that I was no artist. Sure I can play the piano and sing a bit, but I'm certaintly not going to compose anything which will change the world.
For the longest time I thought that I should devote my life to music, or to writing, or atleast to the education of one of these fields. I figured that these are the keys to understanding the universe, that these are the fundimentals in life. I guess I should have thought that through a bit more. If music is the fundemental aspect of life, then no matter what I do with my life, I will be "doing" music. Alan Watts talks about this in one of his lectures on "the web of life". In his discussion of the Web as a playful thing, he mentions that life is rythems, that we are rythms, that our heart beats, our lung breath, our capilaries do some other kind of rythmic dance. We are music. Thus no matter what I do with my life, I will be living the ultimate truth, the ultimate potential, the ultimate "game" or song, or drama. I can't go wrong!
Now, because I'm skeptic by nature, and I must have some sort of concrete evidence that this is true, I look at my own experience (and those of others like me who I trust.) It all checks out fine. I certaintly get no less enjoyment from one of Hawking's books or Feynman's lectures than I do from listening to Rachmaninov's "Vespers". Infact, it is near the same feeling that i notice from both. This sense of happiness, and moments of laughter, small cute smiles, understanding, connection... all of the things I love show up not only in music, but in every aspect of life, so long as they are handled "artfully".
My current plan is to get a BS in physics. Then go from there into an astronomy focused masters (possibly astrophysics from Arizona State?) In any case, I've realized that I need to stop worrying about what I'm focusing my life on, and start spending more time focusing on living my life even less seriously than I do now (I'm sure it has to be possible). I need to start realizing that everything I do can be construed as art, so long as I put my all into it, and leave a bit of myself behind, a bit of my own, unique rythm, Maybe it's possible for me to follow an arbitrary path and still end up an artist. Shrug.
I mostly just plan on having fun with my life. There's no point in stressing over life if I know deep down it's a game, and one that I'm pretty good at too.
Anyways. I just figured I'd update this thing with what's going through my head right now.
For those of you who acctually read all of this. I apologize for the longevity of this post, I don't post often, and when I do it's usually far too long to acctually read.
My schedule this semester is a liiiitle more chalanging than last semester.
Monday & Wedensday:
Precalculus(Trig/Algebra)4credits - Don't get me started on this class. It will only end in emense RAGE at the fact that I'm not allowed to take Calculus. Though in truth, I sort of like the review, and I am getting reinforced in ideas and things that I had missed out in highschool trig and highschool calculus. So all in all it's probably a good thing.
Art & Culture of Ancient Maya 3credits - This class is amazing. And I assume it is going to consume my soul with its difficulty. We will not only be learning the basics of art and culture, but also the writing system (hyrogliphics) and the spoken language, of the Ancient Mayans. We will be going over the arthematic, number system, reaction to colonization, cosmology, and religion. The teacher is fun, his doctorite is in Ancient Maya and he's been studying it since he was an undergrad. He's taught at a lot of prestigious northern schools, but wanted to get back into the southern states (I think he wanted to teach at his old college, but unfortunately its in New Orleans and is now underwater, so he ended up at USF) This class is also restricted to Juniors and Seniors, but me and a few others managed to sneak by the registrar on this one.
Tues & Thurs:
World Religion 4credits - Self explanitory. I took it thinking it so I would have some actual school lectures backing up my knowledge of a broad spectrum of religions.
Stellar Astronomy 4credits - My navigation teacher from last semester teaches this class. She says that the course title is supposed to be "intro to Theoretical astrophyics" but she's not allowed to title it that because that title is for a graduate level class, so instead it's titled "Stellar Astronomy and Cosmology" even though we don't do any cosmology.
Contemporary Thinking in Astronomy 3credits - This class is basically just a cosmology class. We will be discussing black holes, basic theories, some general relativity, probably a little string theory, etc, etc... This class is also restricted to juniors and seniors... basically the registrar at USF is bad at things.
Total Hours 18
Friday:
I have my precalc class at noon for an hour or so.
My work schedule is MUCH better than last semester.
Monday: OFF Tuesday: 5pm - ? Wed: OFF (yes, I acctually have more than one day off) Thurs: 5pm - ? Fri: ? - ? (I'm scheduled to get there around 4, but I'm sure I'll end up working quite a bit earlier than that because I get out of school at around 1 Sat: pretty much all day. Sun: ? - ? (I'm available all day sunday, but Charlie is usually nice enough to just let me work my normal 4pm - 8pm, though once tax season starts I'm sure Charlie will need me as much as possible to organize his life enough to make it legible to an acountant.
Total work hours... Shrug?
So even though my school schedule is pretty hectic, so far I feel a lot more relaxed this semester as I'm not running around nearly as much. Hell, my precalc class doesn't start until 1pm on monday, so I don't even have to put on clothes until noon. As apposed to last semester, where my classes started at 8am and I worked every day until atleast 8pm (except monday which was my only day off, but was a day but still I was at school from 8am to 4pm.
and now I'm off to Contemp thinking... just as soon as I look at a map and remember where it is.
Love always, Dustin
P.S. Michigan was really great and I got a very nice spice rack that Virginia hand painted because she's the sweatest person ever. And it came full of spices. YAY! I also got some fancy Suade (spell?) Sketchers that are pretty cool. And money. Which is always helpful.
P.P.S My dad gave me $300 to help with books and tuition. And I acctually accepted it without feeling like a loser. For those who don't know, I have a very VERY hard time accepting help from others, so this is a good step.
I have done nothing creative, insightful, or imaginative in quite some time. I have not writen anything fictional in longer than I can remember. I believe this means that I belong to the worthless class of "working adults".
How sad is it that I found myself excited to make a brochure cover-page for the realestate company I work for because it meant that I got to use photoshop again?
So I think I may start doing something slightly more creative.
I also haven't done any real math in a long time. I think I'll take Engineering Calculus I next semester just to get myself back into the swing of this whole mathematics thing.
I'm currently doing some independant studying on the topic of Ancient India. I'm supposed to make an "art journal" for my humanities class on any topic in humanities as long as it takes place before 1400AD. So I chose Ancient India, because I'm retarted and refused to choose something easier, like, say... a culture we were already required to study for the class? Nooooo, I find the need to take it upon myself to study a culture that at the beginning of the semester she told us we wouldn't have the time to study. Which of course upsets me slightly, as I believe studying the culture of India, especially on religious and scientific level, is extreamly important, and should ATLEAST be required in an east/west humanities class. I mean, how can you spend time talking about Buddha without also talking about Krishna? How can you talk about meditation without talking about yogic science? grr... owl. But I suppose since the teacher specializes in mostly Western Europe and Japan it does make sense that she wouldn't go into material that isn't very familiar to her.
I think I may also take a religious studies course next semester. I would like to have some credentials behind my religious knowledge (not just what I've read and experienced, but something on paper that says I'm knowledgeable on the subject of religion)
As for work, I'm pretty happy with how things are going. I'm starting to not hate driving anymore, it gives me time to myself where I can't worry too much about school and work because I can't very well do anything about either while I'm driving. It also gives me time to listen to books on CD. I'm listening to The Universe in a Nut Shell by Steven Hawking right now, and I'm enjoying it emensely. I acctually lost the case that had the rest of the Cd's in it for awhile, and was going kind of crazy because it cuts off at the 2nd Cd almost mid idea, and it took me a few days before I could find the 3rd CD in order to finish that idea. Which brings me to the topic of my car being a filthy pit of death and destruction. well, filthy really isn't the right word, because it isn't acctually dirty, just cluttered with a lot of junk that needs to be thrown away, or put in my room.
Well. That's probably about all I have to say.One of these days I'll update this thing with something more insightful. But for right now, I'll just periodically update with my current life situation and what-not. I'm not entirely sure if people still read this anyways. As most people generally just assume I'm dead.
Alright. So my last post was on October 6th, and it's now the 24th. Let's try to figure out what's happened between then and now.
I've had a birth-day, and am now 19 years old. Which means that if I happen to have a mental breakdown this year, I can drive up to Canada, get drunk and then gamble away all of my money that I didn't spend on alcohol and transportation, saving a little cash for a prostitute with some sort of horrible venerial disease so that I can die of sypholus, suicide by prostitute sounds pretty hot to me. So that's always a comforting thing to know.
I have also officially QUIT Dairy Queen. That's right, next weekend is my last time working there. HOO-FUCKING-RAY. ahem. sorry. Upsides to that are: OBVIOUS. Downsides: I will sort of miss the laidback environment of fast-food on the beach. But, most importantly, I will miss the people I worked with, though I was getting a little tired of Timmy's stories, Rook's lewd jokes, and Pat's... well, being Pat. But I will miss Katie very much, we only got to work together a short time but she became a pretty good friend. And I really like her a lot. She says she'll call me sometime soon, and she said she'll go carve pumpkins with me and Virginia next Wed. so that's kinda cool.
As for my new job... well... you're lookin' at it. I'm sitting here right now at a computer with absalutly nothing to do and a good 11 dollars an hour(without tax) to show for it. That of course will change once my boss gets back from his Birthday vacation. His plans for me seem a little extravagen, and I'm not sure if I can live up to them, but I of course tell him that I'm capable of anything and everything, so he has complete faith in me, and I have complete faith in my ability to make him think I'm brilliant, so I think this relationship will work out just fine. I'm aparently some sort of computer consoltant? I'm not realy sure. I just know that he's told me he has stacks of paper a few feet high for each of his "projects" and he wants me to organise these, electronically, into a system that he can easily understand and then mainstream all of his projects together using TECHNOLOGY... whatever the hell that means. I guess the weekend after next I'm supposed to start "computerizing" his house, and along with my pay, he's going to buy me a lap-top for all of my "trouble". Basically, he's 70, and most of his staff are either ex-drugaddicts, or also around the same age, and thus don't know ANYTHING about computers, and are completely unwilling to learn, and so his company is very far behind, and they need someone who is willing to start from scratch. And I mean FROM SCRATCH, he wants me to buy the computers, hook them up, buy high-speed scanners, hook them up, organize the files, scan them, organize them on the computers, and then explain it all to him. There's some other stuff he wants me to do. Like what I'm doing right now. Which is, watch the front desk of one his hotels because there's no one else working durring these hours.
All of that said and done. We'll get on to how I'm doing. Well, I'm not so sure. USF is still getting to me a little. I'm beggining to find myself closing up as I still haven't made contact with anyone at that entire school. But my grades on the other hand are better than they have been since the 2nd grade. which means that I'm not failing anything. And acctually have close to strait A's. I mean, it's obvious that I SHOULD have strait A's, as I'm not exactly in a rigorous academic environment. But hey, I'm taking baby steps here. And it's good enough for me. Not failing is a pretty start on the road to accademic success, right? Maybe next I'll tackle remember to zip up my pants, or maybe doing my laundry on a regular basis.
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