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Why did I take a summer class? Wha? So I could graduate earlier? Whatever.
2005-06-09 18:51:57
Now I know why my class is called communication and documentation. Because I have to write a bunch of stuff, duh. Anyway, like I said before, it's not dificult, just daunting. My big project involves writing a 10 page research paper. This shouldn't be too hard, I just need to figure out what my topic is going to be. Maybe something like, whether or not file sharing can be stopped or in what ways, good or bad, have computers affected our lives. Whatever I decide to do, it's all going to prevent me from doing the stuff I want to do.
A month ago, I predicted that one of our co-workers would be fired. I so called that.
Saturday is my birthday, 23, if you were wondering, but it's no big deal. I can smoke, but I never have. I can drink, but I rarely do. I can watch porn, but it's all hentai, and I still need a fake I.D. to rent ultra porn (Futurama). Mom's taking me to see Star Wars III, sweet. While I hear this is a really good movie, I wonder why the Star Wars geeks have said nothing about the Clone Wars series. I was looking forward to the Clone Wars since the prequels were announced. Anyway, I think the greatest thing I can say about my birthday is that I get the day off of work, and I didn't even ask.
Bought Motorhead's "No Sleep 'til Hammersmith" album, on vinyl. The songs are really good, but the production values are total crap. Like Lemmy really gives a shit. Naturally, they promote it as the best live album ever, but KISS "Alive" will always be the greatest, studio edited or not. -
Must...sleep...now.
2005-05-26 16:00:04
Being in the play was a total blast, and I think I only screwed up on stage once. It was great meeting some new people (Wendi's boyfriend is pretty cool) and some old faces (Dan and Teresa are getting married at the beginning of June). While it was a great experience for me, I don't think I'm going to be in another play for some time. I'll just geek out for a couple months or so. Speaking of which, remember Dr. Mario? One of my friends, Christian, got me and the guys (who I hang out with every Monday night) to do a Dr. Mario/Tetris tournament. Naturally she owned all of us, and I can't blame her, she's a freaking beast at that game!
Communication and Documentation class has started. I don't see it being hard, but it is going to be frustrating. We have to be in groups and start up our own businesses, my group chose to act as a video game design company. Basically, we act out what the company would do in a real life environment, work a network, deal with realistic problems, stuff like that. We also learn how to write professional looking documents.
Got more hours at work which means more cash, yay. But this weekend is going to be a bitch. Memorial Day weekend has become some big river festival deal where all these steam engine style boats come to town, along with music and food vendors and what not. Ugh. Not only are the people going to cause me to be in a hectic work environment, parking is going to be impossible to deal with.
The projects are coming along nicely, I'm actually making headway with the music video for once. My writing project is nearing completion on the rough draft, so editing shouldn't be TOO far away.
Hey Shayna, at least E3 used to be on CNN, before people got hooked up to the net. Check out http://www.gamespot.com/e3 for everything you need to know. The big surprises for me were the new Final Fight game, Tekken(6?), the Final Fantasy VII test video and the controller for the PS3, weird. Now if only I had an XBox so I could play all those SNK fighters in English. Sure I could get the PS2 Japanese imports, but like I said, ENGLISH. Oh, and I definitely recommend Ranma 1/2, one of my all time favorite manga. The plot may not be too serious, but the laughs sure are. The fact that Rumiko Takahashi made it is a good enough indication that it's great. -
Lights, Drama, Screw Ups.
2005-05-12 14:58:17
While the rest of you are off to A-Cen or something like it, the first performance of the play is tomorrow. I'm pretty confident in how it's going to turn out, but we are all missing our que's here and there, so we are all going to have some stuff blow up in our faces now and then. Our director thinks we're doing alright though, so I can't complain about that. I just hope we iron out everything tonight.
Saw Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on Mothers' Day. Very enjoyable. Since I'm not a hardcore Guide fan, I have no idea what the big differences are. I have seen the television series and heard the radio plays, but what happened in those are vague to me now. The ending felt different though, so maybe I'm on to something. Oh well, doesn't really matter to me that much anyway.
The school semester is officially over. No more O/S class, no more stupid Linux class. The finals were a total joke too, we didn't have any. I had the same teacher for both classes and I think she has a few screws loose. I don't want classes to be hard, but I want to be challenged too. For O/S, we attended a computer workshop seminar and filled out a worksheet on the seminar, that's it. In Linux, we took Linux off of our hard drives. That's it. Yeah it's all to easy, but I still feel cheated. Now that classes are over with, I just have to look forward to my summer class, but this will give me SOME free time to work on the projects. Of course, knowing me, I'll probably be lazy about them anyway.
Shayna, two things to tell you. E3 is over rated, just watch the footage on CNN or something. Other than that, you actually watch Duel Masters, willingly? -
It's all coming together.
2005-05-05 15:59:44
All of my lines have been memorized, I just need to remember when my queues are. While some of the other actors think they still need some more rehearsal time, but I feel I'm ready to perform. The play starts on Friday the 13th (duh-duh-duuunnn!) and I'm really excited about it. I just can't wait. I've really gotten along with everyone, especially Chris and his fiancée, Teresa. They are some of the coolest people ever. We're thinking about entering a karaoke contest this Friday, should be fun!
Finals are coming up. I'm nervous about the test for O/S. Am I going to be able to study everything I need to without falling asleep? Is the play going to prevent me from studying? Will I even know everything? As far as Linux class goes, whatever. Most of us felt like we weren't doing anything to begin with. I had to set up a printer server in the lab we were in, but it doesn't help when the printer won't do anything on the network but will print whatever you want locally. Seems like a waste of time.
For some reason I'm really jones’n to play some different old school game systems. I want to try the PC Engine (Turbo Grafx 16) at some point in my life, mostly for the Dracula X: Chi no Rondo game, it's the "prequel" to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I know there are some other games I want to play too like Y's, but what version do I get? Hard core video game fans know that there are numerous versions of the system; the original system played cartridges the size of credit cards, the second was a CD-Rom system, and there were other versions as well. I just want the one that can play the Hu-Cards and the CDs, but which one is it, and what adaptors do I need to do that? I also want to get a Sega Saturn some day, I will get one just to play Nightwarriors: Darkstalkers Revenge, and I want to check out the other underrated games for this awesome underrated system. But I think I should get one right now, otherwise Segata Sanshiro is going to kill me if I don't get one on ebay! Look him up on the net, those commercials are fucking hilarious! -
Why do I have no life when I actually do have a life?
2005-04-21 15:57:32
Everything’s going alright with the play. I have all of my lines for act 1 memorized, just started on act 2 and we finished up blocking all of our scenes. But there's only one problem, this play is taking time away from everything else I want to do, my writing and AMV making. It sucks, I tried to do some writing last night, and I could visualize what I wanted to write, but I was unable to move my pencil on the paper. My mind was totally vacant. So, I probably won't be able to get any work done on my projects for quite a while now. Might not even finish the AMV by the time Anime Iowa comes around, I'd be premiering it the following year, that blows.
Remember that friend I mentioned that was going to get married in Ohio? Not happening. Once she realized how much of a jerk the guy really was, she ran off and came back into town. And it hasn't been good since. When her daughter first saw her (for about a year or so), she couldn't believe that her vast change in behavior was normal, so she had her committed. Mom was able to get her out, but now she's become a little dependant on us because she practically has no where else to go. I want to help her out, but she's an adult and she should be able to stand on her own two feet. Even though luck's running out on her and she's completely depressed, I would hope this situation wraps up to a quick end and that there was an easier way to do it.
I have a feeling we're going to get rid of another one of our co-workers pretty soon. I'm having problems trying to get along with one of the girls. She's having trouble fitting into a real working environment. I believe a person should act as professional as they can in the work place, she hardly ever tries. She gets the work done, but her head's always out in space. When customers would ask what we were serving, she'd either tell them it was something we didn't even have, or she would take one of the food items and if it was hard to pronounce, like spatzel, she'd blatantly make up a word, spaditzl. She'd also joke about the prices, ringing up an individual and tell them the price was three times what it actually is. Also, she has a very limited view on life and living. She always talks about how she just wants to drink in her spare time or if I drink or smoke or anything like that. When I told her about the play, she just looks at me funny and asks if I'm doing it for school. I tell her no, just for my own amusement. She thought I was a little strange for doing so, ignorant bitch. I realize she's only trying to have fun, but when you don't take life or work seriously, customers aren't going to take her seriously, and they aren't going to take the rest of us seriously. I hope they get rid of her, and replace her with a guy, my age, who isn't fat, and doesn't think he's God's gift to Earth. Yeah, I work with idiots, it's called a job.
Picked up Midway Arcade Treasures, proof that I will always love old school games. These are games made by Atari, Williams and Midway, back when all three companies where actually cool. Some really good ones, some I've never played before. My favorites on the disk are Rampage, Gauntlet ("Wizard need's food badly"), 720 ("What do you think this is, a charity organization?"), Paperboy, Road Blasters ("Now that's cruising"), Spy Hunter, Root Beer Taper, Klax, Toobing and Smash T.V. ("I'd buy that for a dollar"). The game isn't arcade perfect on all of the games, the screen shakes on Smash T.V. from time to time, but the games are still enjoyable, better than M.A.T. 2 (crap games AND Mortal Kombat) and M.A.T. 3 a.k.a. racing game fun pack.
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