Thursday, February 3, 2011
First Post in a While
Well, here I am, a few weeks into school. I know that I was supposed to keep this blog updated, but it's been difficult to find time. I've made even more friends this semester and turned my life around. I was going in kind of a weird direction. My room was never clean, and I wasn't sleeping enough. All the stuff that was holding me back changed when I moved in with wayne. My room is clean and I don't feel embarrassed about it. In fact, we're entering the best room on campus competition. I'm active in the Gaming Club, which is running a Halo Reach tournament soon. I'm actually happy, except for the loss of one of my best friends, but with any luck I'll learn from it and be all the better a person for it. Thanks for all you've done for me, you know who you are, and I'm sorry.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The First Day is the Toughest
Oh my god. The first day of classes is finally (almost) over. I'll tell you right now that I must have gotten soft from the month off from college. I'm so tired right now, so you can imagine how hard it is to listen to someone talk about Plates and Aristocrats (do you see what I did there? As in Plato and Aristotle.) without falling over sideways and kissing reality goodbye.
Justin and I woke up at Way Too Early o' Clock. We got ready and headed over to the dining hall for what we affectionately refer to as nom noms. Then, at 11 we made our way to C++ class. Big surprise, but it's in the same building and the same room as the last programming class we had. Oh, and it also has THE SAME TEACHER. Whoopee. After getting our syllabus and finding out that we needed to install a different version of the last program that we used to run code in the last class, which will take forever, we left to go meet up with some friends.
Our next class would start about an hour later. We make our way to the building, which was the same as the last class. Walking up to the paper in the lobby of that building which tells where each class is, we scan to find our class. To my astonishment, IT'S IN THE SAME ROOM AS THE LAST CLASS. Nevertheless, I feel as though I'll come out of those classes with more than I went in with.
After that, we didn't have another class until 6:30. We went to Mack and Dave's to look for an electronic drumset. They didn't carry them, but could order one for as low as $500, so as of now, it remains a viable option.
After we hung with our peeps for a minute, Justin and I went to our last class, which was Ancient Philosophy. By this point, I was dog tired. I mean DEAD dog tired. I have no clue why, but I somehow went from being able to stay up for days to needing sleep every 6 hours in a single day. epic sigh. This fact was compounded by the fact that the Philosophy class is two and a half hours long. I began writing this post during the last bit of Philosophy, as you might have been able to guess from the beginning paragraph, but I'm finishing it this morning. Sorry, I was way too tired.
After that, we just spent rest of the day seeing people we hadn't seen in a while, getting to know people, that sort of thing. The day was tiring, and not very eventful. Everywhere, people were running around like it was their first day of classes, which is understandable since some of them had just moved in. Hectic and draining, the day nevertheless went by smoothly. Now, if I can just make it through Calculus tonight...
Justin and I woke up at Way Too Early o' Clock. We got ready and headed over to the dining hall for what we affectionately refer to as nom noms. Then, at 11 we made our way to C++ class. Big surprise, but it's in the same building and the same room as the last programming class we had. Oh, and it also has THE SAME TEACHER. Whoopee. After getting our syllabus and finding out that we needed to install a different version of the last program that we used to run code in the last class, which will take forever, we left to go meet up with some friends.
Our next class would start about an hour later. We make our way to the building, which was the same as the last class. Walking up to the paper in the lobby of that building which tells where each class is, we scan to find our class. To my astonishment, IT'S IN THE SAME ROOM AS THE LAST CLASS. Nevertheless, I feel as though I'll come out of those classes with more than I went in with.
After that, we didn't have another class until 6:30. We went to Mack and Dave's to look for an electronic drumset. They didn't carry them, but could order one for as low as $500, so as of now, it remains a viable option.
After we hung with our peeps for a minute, Justin and I went to our last class, which was Ancient Philosophy. By this point, I was dog tired. I mean DEAD dog tired. I have no clue why, but I somehow went from being able to stay up for days to needing sleep every 6 hours in a single day. epic sigh. This fact was compounded by the fact that the Philosophy class is two and a half hours long. I began writing this post during the last bit of Philosophy, as you might have been able to guess from the beginning paragraph, but I'm finishing it this morning. Sorry, I was way too tired.
After that, we just spent rest of the day seeing people we hadn't seen in a while, getting to know people, that sort of thing. The day was tiring, and not very eventful. Everywhere, people were running around like it was their first day of classes, which is understandable since some of them had just moved in. Hectic and draining, the day nevertheless went by smoothly. Now, if I can just make it through Calculus tonight...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
No, Wait, Now I'm Rested
I woke up today at 8. No, not in the morning. In the evening. I don't know how I did it, but I'm sleeping like I'm on night shift. The thing about that is that I don't even have a job! What the hell? Anyway, I have got to get back on some kind of regular sleep schedule this week. College isn't a great environment for day-sleeping.
Right now, there is a Little Rascals marathon on TCM. There is a lot of racism in those old shorts. Midgets are persecuted as thieves, and Stymie doesn't speak with very much grace, but you know what? That stuff is still hilarious. There is an almost unchanging formula for comedy, with some interchangeable variables that allow for the comedy to be updated with the times. It's crazy.
When I woke up, I found the house empty. In the kitchen was a few burgers and some fries left out for me. I would've loved to put those burgers on buns, slather them with some kind of condiment, and eat those fries...but I didn't. I decided yesterday that I was going to lose this weight. I started my diet proper today. I took those burger patties, put onions and worchestershire sauce on them. Then, I broke up some celery, and put a small amount of peanut butter on the stalks. I pulled some lettuce off the head in the fridge and put a little italian dressing on that. That's what I ate; burger patties, onions, celery, and lettuce. It's a high protein, low carb diet. I'll also be taking a multi-vitamin daily, since I won't be eating bread and stuff.
Right now, there is a Little Rascals marathon on TCM. There is a lot of racism in those old shorts. Midgets are persecuted as thieves, and Stymie doesn't speak with very much grace, but you know what? That stuff is still hilarious. There is an almost unchanging formula for comedy, with some interchangeable variables that allow for the comedy to be updated with the times. It's crazy.
When I woke up, I found the house empty. In the kitchen was a few burgers and some fries left out for me. I would've loved to put those burgers on buns, slather them with some kind of condiment, and eat those fries...but I didn't. I decided yesterday that I was going to lose this weight. I started my diet proper today. I took those burger patties, put onions and worchestershire sauce on them. Then, I broke up some celery, and put a small amount of peanut butter on the stalks. I pulled some lettuce off the head in the fridge and put a little italian dressing on that. That's what I ate; burger patties, onions, celery, and lettuce. It's a high protein, low carb diet. I'll also be taking a multi-vitamin daily, since I won't be eating bread and stuff.
Monday, January 3, 2011
I Feel Rested
I finally got to sleep last night, but in all honesty, it was because I had to. I have a doctor's appointment today, and I don't want to look like I'm on meth when I see him.
Now it's time for a little bit of computer talk. A while ago, before I got this laptop that I am currently using, I had it in my head that laptops shouldn't be large in size. I don't mean that I was all, "OMG, big laptops must suck because they're big and not tiny and cool!", but I kinda made fun of a friend once for having a large laptop. Was I wrong, or just stupid? This 17" inch laptop is amazing for games and graphics, and it will be a beast for displaying 3D imaging. Here's my formal apology; I'm sorry Lucas. Your laptop isn't dumb.
I'm actually excited to go back to school, which is something that you'd never have heard me say in high school. Weird, huh? I need to get ready to leave, but I'll be posting again soon.
Now it's time for a little bit of computer talk. A while ago, before I got this laptop that I am currently using, I had it in my head that laptops shouldn't be large in size. I don't mean that I was all, "OMG, big laptops must suck because they're big and not tiny and cool!", but I kinda made fun of a friend once for having a large laptop. Was I wrong, or just stupid? This 17" inch laptop is amazing for games and graphics, and it will be a beast for displaying 3D imaging. Here's my formal apology; I'm sorry Lucas. Your laptop isn't dumb.
I'm actually excited to go back to school, which is something that you'd never have heard me say in high school. Weird, huh? I need to get ready to leave, but I'll be posting again soon.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
This Is What I Do When I Don't Sleep
I didn't sleep last night. I just didn't feel like it, okay? So, naturally, when staying up all night, a person must find things to do to occupy themselves. Call Of Duty: Black Ops helped for most of the night, but after losing a wager match which was particularly harsh, I opted for something else. At about 8:00AM or so, I decided to listen to a post I saw on 4chan and redo my desktop. Here is what mine now looks like:
I grew tired of the taskbar, so I am now using Object Dock which comes up when I mouse over the bottom of the screen. I had way too many icons that I never used. Fences helped me clear those away and categorize the ones that I didn't need. The orange boxes that you can see can be hidden and unhidden quickly and easily. Up in the top right is a simple set of Rainmeter skins which tell me what time and day it is and how much battery I have left since the taskbar is no longer in the picture, a few bars tell me how my system is holding up, and how much RAM I'm using. Under that is a Facebook feed, just because.
I pretty happy with it. Now, I can put a beautiful background picture up and can actually see it, rather than look through 40 icons. That was what I did to stay awake. Tell me in the comments below what you do to stay awake when you don't feel like sleeping!
I grew tired of the taskbar, so I am now using Object Dock which comes up when I mouse over the bottom of the screen. I had way too many icons that I never used. Fences helped me clear those away and categorize the ones that I didn't need. The orange boxes that you can see can be hidden and unhidden quickly and easily. Up in the top right is a simple set of Rainmeter skins which tell me what time and day it is and how much battery I have left since the taskbar is no longer in the picture, a few bars tell me how my system is holding up, and how much RAM I'm using. Under that is a Facebook feed, just because.
I pretty happy with it. Now, I can put a beautiful background picture up and can actually see it, rather than look through 40 icons. That was what I did to stay awake. Tell me in the comments below what you do to stay awake when you don't feel like sleeping!
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