| Crunch time. |
[Apr. 17th, 2008|10:46 am] |
Well, more accurately, the middle of crunch time. It's been crunch time ever since spring break ended about three weeks ago (IS IT ONLY THAT LONG AGO?!?!?!? WTF). And by crunch time, I mean that familiar time of the college spring term where everyone and everything related to classes goes to complete shit and eats up everyone's lives. I'm only now getting to post about it because I've got ten free minutes before class claims me again and I'm stuck here at the IT building for another seven to eight hours.
Gigantic senior project for Software Engineering has been eating my brain pretty much all the time. And when it's not eating my brain, I've been going to the bars to drink, since it seems that it's the only time and place I can truly escape working on the damn thing. I've been logging on average three to four hours a day (including weekends) outside of class working on this project to make sure it's done by the due date...which is this SATURDAY at 11:59pm for all project documentation (including code). Preliminary presentation for the project is on Tuesday during class, for a test grade. And then there's a week and a half of fixing up and finalizing before we present the project before the entire Computer Science faculty, the clients we're doing the project at the behest of, and the Dean of the College of IT. It's also under extra scrutiny because we're THE senior project of the entire college (CS being the premiere major in the college) and this year's performance of the senior class and project are essentially an evaluation of the entire CS department for accreditation. Woo-freakin'-hoo.
The upside to this is that there's two competing groups in this Software Engineering class, doing the same project. The winning group (deemed so by the clients) is awarded $500 per person. So I may very well get something MONETARY out of this, besides having to pass the class to graduate in December. I just can't wait for this all to be done with. That'll be a good day. I've even had to give up working on Saturdays so we can get this done, so it's affecting my direct cash flow in addition to my social life and sanity. PLEASE FOR IT TO BE MAY NINTH ALREADY.
...in addition, I have another project in my one-credit-hour Directed Study class that's due next week (I think...), and a test coming up in a week and a half for Algorithms. And then finals. And I'm trying to secure a job at an apartment complex part-time so I can have somewhere that I can live from the summer through at least graduation (the job will pay my rent, if all goes well). And summer classes. And yeah. So, can crunch time be over yet? |
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| Hey, look at this! |
[Apr. 3rd, 2008|11:02 am] |
...this shit is really, really cool (to ME at least)!
New British coins!
Also, I'm totally skipping my first class today. Maybe it'll stop downpouring or I'll find my umbrella by the time I have to get on campus for real. |
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| Please for you to not listen to me. |
[Mar. 14th, 2008|12:55 am] |
You guys remember my last three nights of posts? Well, DON'T. Please. In addition to being terribly drunk for all of them, in retrospect, I was just being fucking DUMB. Those of you who know what's been up the last few nights with me, well, you know. And if you don't, please don't ask. But yeah. IGNORE THAT SHIT, please please please.
I'm dumb. And drunk. And those together do not good things make. I'll shut up now. |
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| Boys Like Girls - Hero/Heroine |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|05:25 am] |
In addition to this song having infectiously been stuck in my head for the last two weeks, I feel the need to post the lyrics to further try and express what I've been feeling. Now, I know this can be interpreted myriad ways, but the way that I did, it makes sense to ME, at least.
It's too late baby, there's no turning around
I've got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud
This is how I do
When I think about you
I never thought that you could break me apart
I keep a sinister smile and a hold of my heart
You want to get inside
Then you need to get in line
But not this time
Cause you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming
I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
I won't try to philosophize
I'll just take a deep breath and I'll look in your eyes
This is how I feel
And its so so real
I got a closet filled up to the brim
With the ghosts of my past and the skeletons
And I don't know why
You'd even try
But I won't lie
You caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming
I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?
And I feel a weakness coming on
Never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
I'm feeling like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded
And you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming
I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?
(I feel like a hero and you are my heroine)
And I feel a weakness coming on
Never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
I'm feeling like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded |
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| Me being dumb. |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|05:54 am] |
Edit: yeah, in hindsight, I was REALLY drunk when I made this post. Let's not revisit this one, kay guys? |
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| jasdl;fja;lsjfl;a |
[Mar. 11th, 2008|03:29 am] |
| [ | How I'm doing |
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Yay for getting completely smashed on a Monday night. FUCK responsibility. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 3rd, 2008|04:33 am] |
I stole this from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) voiceofkiki. Memetastical time. Woo.
You are The Emperor
Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person.
The Emperor is the great authority figure of the Tarot, so it represents
fathers, father-figures and employers. There is a lot of aggression and violence
too.
The Emperor naturally follows the Empress. Like an infant, he is filled with enthuiasm, energy, aggression. He is direct, guileless and all too often irresistible. Unfortunately, like a baby he can also be a tyrant. Impatient, demanding, controlling. In the best of circumstances, he signifies the leader that everyone wants to follow, sitting on a throne that indicates the solid foundation of an Empire he created, loves and rules with intelligence and enthusiasm. But that throne can also be a trap, a responsibility that has the Emperor feeling restless, bored and discontent.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out. |
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| POINTLESS |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|07:29 pm] |
This post is a completely useless SPAM POST to show off my new ICON. LOOK AT IT! IT'S RIGHT THERE. |
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| CHAMPIONSHIIIIIIIP! |
[Feb. 4th, 2008|04:29 am] |
wut wut! SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS, BABY! G-G-G-G-G-G-MEN!
Take that, Brady. SUCKIT, Belichick. Eighteen and one. AND YOU LOSE THE ONE THAT COUNTS. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
Number one, BABY! |
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| Oh, I suck. |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|03:01 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | i suck at updating, school | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | class | ] |
| [ | How I'm doing |
| |  lethargic | ] |
| [ | What's playing in my head |
| | Asian Kung-Fu Generation - After Dark | ] |
See, I knew this would happen. And people, get your panties out of a bunch, nothing SERIOUSLY bad has happened. I just suck at keeping this thing updated. I ALWAYS have and it seems that I ALWAYS will.
Anyways, life is good. Tomorrow marks the end of the first week of classes. SO I GET TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT NOW.
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are easy. One class. 2 - 3:15pm (2-2:50pm Fridays) is Calculus III. That's my FILLER CLASS to stay full time. That's funny, because my FILLER may end up accidentally helping me to get a MATH MINOR. Go figure.
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Well, this is the part that blows me up. 9:30 - 10:45am is Broadband. CS Elective. It's early, and it's dull. Yay, fun time. Then IMMEDIATELY AFTER that, 11am - 12:15pm is Algorithm Design and Analysis. Boring topic, of course, but GOOD PROFESSOR. I very much enjoy any class taught by Dr. Harris, who's the head of the CS department here. He manages to make everything just NOT SUCK. So kudos, and fun times there. Then I get to laze around for THREE HOURS until 3:30 - 4:45pm Software Engineering. It's a retake, because I wound up DYING OF THE PLAGUE the first time around. Yeah, that was fun. So I get to do the HARD, CAPSTONE PROJECT class AGAIN. Yay for me. For those of you that weren't with me the first time, this class will eat my life. If I'm busy, it's probably because of it. Also, the break right before class is aggravating. It's the PERFECT amount of time to want to walk 15 minutes home, get food, start something productive, and then INTERRUPT IT to walk 15 minutes back to the IT building and go back to class. Super.
Anyways, it's about time to shuffle into class, where I'll be surfing the internet and reading One Piece manga, pretending to listen to the same stuff that I got to listen to the FIRST TIME a year ago. ...yay.
P.S. eating at the cafe in the lobby of the IT Building is, as I remembered, 100% hit or miss. Today, I had a Steak-a-dilla. It was somewhat tasty. Apparently my stomach didn't get the memo. MISS. |
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| 2008! |
[Jan. 1st, 2008|05:21 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | drunk | ] |
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| | oot and about | ] |
| [ | How I'm doing |
| | drunk | ] |
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| | Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream | ] |
Happy New Years, mother fuckers!
XD |
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| Hello, peoples. |
[Dec. 30th, 2007|05:14 am] |
So, I'm mildly intoxicated right now. This should be fun. ^^
Wednesday was a day of GLORY. With the Andromeda and movies and such. I don't even REMEMBER how much went down that day, but stuff happened. And it ended in SWEENEY TODD. And MY GODS that movie is amazing. AMAZING. I <3 Helena Bonham Carter, and Johnny Depp's voice is so incredibly HAUNTING. Yes, much win.
Thursday was a bunch of movies and MUCH GUITAR HERO III. *cackle* So good, so good the game is. Great success, very nice, et cetera. So forth, too.
Friday...being yesterday, the day before now...um. That was a trip to the Atlantic City for the playing poker. Actually won eighty bucks. Shoulda won more, but eh. Eighty's fine with me. That's MORE MONEY IN MY POCKET, which, if you didn't know... Money is an endangered species in my leather wallet. I must protect with with my life! YES, sad as that is.
And then today. I slept long and hard after getting back from AC at SIX THIRTY AM. Yes, it was late. Early, even. Then I wake up at 6pm, and find out PARTY TIME for Giants-Patriots. So I go, enjoy many much beers, watch an AMAZING GAME that completely ends in heartbreak (BTW, sidenote, I hate the NFL and I think they're a corrupt bunch of fucks for reasons that I don't want to get into right now because it's too fresh in my mind and I'll just get ANGRY), and then play six hours of Guitar Hero with my friends, being the drunk. WOOHOO.
And now I just got home, and I'm listening to The Killers - When You Were Young on repeat for about the thirtieth time. BECAUSE IT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD. YEARGH!
So yeah, there's an update. Drunken and such. Enjoy, peoples. Later. |
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| Fandom? From ME? |
[Dec. 26th, 2007|07:30 am] |
yeah, so THANKS MEGAN. I've been thinking in nothing but fandom for the last week. wtf. I might have finally thought of an OTP that makes me truly happy, though, in my passed-outness from last night. *smirk*
Kaylee/Andromeda.
As in Kaylee from Firefly, and Andromeda from the TV show of the same name (THE KEVIN SORBO ONE. WHAT?) Yeah, if you know it, YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT. (and if this already exists, O.O HAPPY)
EDIT:
Also, I realize that there's another one that's easier to see that also ROCKS MY WORLD.
Kaylee/Fred.
If only because they'd be SO CUTE just completely geeking out over EVERYTHING. Oh, and they're INCREDIBLY MEGA HAWT. And yes, I think that Amy Acker as Illyria is SO MUCH HOTTER...but it's just not the same!
Edit number 2 (because i don't like to spam and i suck at getting all my thoughts down at once):
Just after I even THINK about it and post it, SciFi channel's running an EIGHT HOUR Andromeda MARATHON. The inner squee is just going NUTS. |
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| As yet unfinished.. |
[Dec. 26th, 2007|07:18 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | poetry | ] |
| [ | How I'm doing |
| | awake | ] |
More stuff from my head, a few days ago. More prose than anything else, but I think this wants more rhythm and some music.
Those blades of ice,
so cold and unrelenting like your eyes,
peering into my soul,
my window to the world is closing,
freezing shut,
never more to let the breeze of freedom in.
Branches swaying in the wind,
helpless but to move to nature's whims,
yet they stand and brace for whatever still may come.
Brave soldiers,
teach me your ways,
your means to keeping steadfast 'gainst the night.
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There's more waiting to be written, but my mind won't let me channel it out. ^^; |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 25th, 2007|05:34 am] |
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Happy Merry Christmas-y things, peoples. |
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| HAYGUYZLOOKAMEME!1 |
[Dec. 20th, 2007|06:23 pm] |
The Rules:
1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 12 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
Band Name: Neble House
Album Name: Bronze Nazareth
Track 1: Clinton Township, Seneca County, Ohio
Track 2: Theatre of War (Doctor Who)
Track 3: Marc Tardif
Track 4: Anne & Gilbert
Track 5: Portion control (dieting)
Track 6: James Paterson
Track 7: 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
Track 8: STS-49
Track 9: Redcap (World of Darkness)
Track 10: Anna Regina
Track 11: Albert Cooper (soccer)
Track 12: Sassoon Docks
My band isn't very good with the names. :P And it had so much promise! |
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| Interesting feeling. |
[Dec. 16th, 2007|01:14 am] |
So, I've spent my life for the last four and a half years in the south. During this time, I've come back to New York in the cold once a year during December. My body does not regularly comprehend things like it used to. Things such as cold.
It's fucking COLD.
AND IT IS SNOWING OMG OMG OMG HAHAAHAH! I haven't seen snow in nearly three years! GLORY, IT SNOWS IN NEW YORK IN DECEMBER AGAIN! Muahahaha!
Happy.
I am feeling uncontrollably sexy right now. Somebody stop me! |
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| Nazi bullet bumrape! |
[Dec. 13th, 2007|03:03 am] |
My good friend 42_23 just turned me onto quite possibly the best video game reviewer of all time. Comic gold. From here, I learned several things that I can show all of you in convenient bullet points!
- You would think that having a knife jabbed through your throat would impede your ability to soliloquize, but oh well. That is not the case.
- Playing the end of Guitar Hero III is more painful and less preferable than jamming barbed wire down your mouth, out your ass, and flossing with it.
- The Nazis had giant FORTRESSES OF DOOM and Hitler rode around on a massive robot spider. Also, they employed stormtroopers in full body armor with gas masks and were able to absorb three sniper shots to the head before falling over dead.
...watch, live, learn.
Zero Punctuation.
Happiness abounds. |
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| BLEACH! |
[Dec. 13th, 2007|01:05 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | bleach!, home | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | my bed | ] |
| [ | How I'm doing |
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| [ | What's playing in my head |
| | Holding On - VnV Nation | ] |
I did it I did it I did it! One week of relocating to NY and lazing around gets me caught up to current Bleach episodes! *crosses arms* Bwahaha! So much excitement!
Oh, and yes, I'm back in New York. And I'm having fun for the time being. Haven't seen half of my friends yet. They've all graduated and got big paying jobs in the city. Kinda makes me feel slow and inadequate, but shit, whatever. I'll be done soon. And then I get to figure out my life all over again, woohoo.
But yes, OMG BLEACH! Ulquiorra is soooooo cool. Definitely one of my favorites. But oohoo, Ichigo!Hollow is cool too...I like it when he loses control, so many awesome things happen! And doi, Urahara is just amaaazing....yes, so much happy contained in digital form! I want to talk with people about it! |
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