Hurricane

Grad school officially starts tomorrow and I am really excited... of course, I wouldn't have minded if Katrina hit near by so school would have been cancelled... also, if it hit closer New Orleans would not be completely destroyed... I hope everyone makes it out ok... I really want to visit there someday...

I haven't updated in a while, but that is because I have been busy helping my new roommates move in and playing Champions of Norrath on his Playstation 2... addicting game... I also was went bowling and played pool this week... I am joining the Billiards Club and the Pizza Bowling League... As a member of the Billiards Club I will get free pool at FSU's bowling alley... and it only cost $20 for membership... I want to get really good... For the Pizza League, Dmitri, Micah and I are on a team with another one of their friends... Every Sunday we will play 3 games of bowling and get 2 slices of pizza for only $6 a week... sweeeeeeeeeet... I love bowling...

I had a ton of meetings to get ready for the school year as well, hour upon hours of them... he he... I also became the Treasurer of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)... which means I have a ton of stuff to do for that as well.. it'll be a busy a year...

There is a ton of stuff that we have to give to Goodwill, the problem is I don't know when I will have time for them to come out and get it... hopefully early in the week so I don't have to have it all cluttered in my living room...

So, I decided to take Distributed Application Development even though I have heard really crappy things about the teacher... I am just too excited about it and I also heard that the TA convinced him not to give tests, bur only to assign projects... and projects is what I want... I am also taking Pattern Recognition and Advanced Unix Program, both with teachers that I have had in the past (and loved)... and lastly I am taking the require Research class that I am really not looking forward too at all...

Labels: bowling, dmitri sokgobenzon, gaming, grad school, hurricane

The Sims 2 comes out this Thursday or Friday (the website says Friday, but the commercials say Thursday) I will finally have a life... or at least be able to act one out... I am really excited... the graphics are awesome...

I get paid Friday as well... and I already got some of my money I earned when I was down there... It is all going to pay off my debt that I have for buying my laptop, as well as other computer parts for my desktop... doesn't matter though, I have nothing to save it for or use it for... I'm going to get a $60,000 job when I get out and have nothing to spend that money on either...

I keep feeling like I am getting ahead in school, but then they assign a ton more and I am right back where I was, with a ton to do... I am taking the two hardest Computer Science classes right now... Programming Languages and Operating Systems... Programming Languages is a "history of" course... <yawn> we learn all about the many different computer languages and why/how/when they were developed... in Operating Systems, it is more interesting, but much much harder... we have to do low level programming, aka, disk access, file management, etc... (the basics of what Windows does)

I went out tonight with people in my major, but only to work on a hard assignment for programming languages... it was as fun as doing homework can be... The other week Patti came here and I spent 72 hours straight with her... I have been talking to my other best friend on the phone a lot lately... I might even see her this week if I evacuate to Atlanta... Weekends aren't really something to look forward too, I just sleep through them because I have nothing to do... I do all my homework at work... so weekends might as well be weekdays... at least then time goes by quicker...

I am getting to know people's name in my major... it might be useful someday... everyone sees me as the nerd though, because I "always" do good, and I enjoy programming... oh well...

Its frustrating me that Ivan moved further west... I already boarded the whole house, upstairs and down, because I knew I wouldn't have had time later in the week to do it... it better have been for something... hopefully it makes a big turn and heads straight towards me... assuming everyone would stay safe of course...

Oh well, I organized my thoughts now... time to go to bed...

Labels: best friend, electronic arts, hurricane, nerd, patti botero, programming, undergrad

My family is probably going to come up here to out run the hurricane that is coming... FREE FOOD! yay... they said they will most likely be here Thursday night. Depending on where the hurricane is headed of course...

I still love my job, it is the third day now, and I get to sit here and do whatever I want... super... I am at work right now.

I got my new hard drive yesterday and I am getting my new RAM today... my computer will be super... I already have Linux up and running and now I need to install Windows... At least I will have something to do this weekend... either hang out with my family, or work on my computer to get it just right...

The Sims 2 comes out soon, I want to preorder it... They have a DVD edition so you don't have to have a million CD's...

I have maintained my goal weight of 180lbs... I am going to try and loose more though... I use to be 206ish before my diet, and I peaked at 213... my ring doesn't even fit me anymore... my fingers probably weighed 10 of those pounds I lost... he he... I have lost all this weight on a CARB ONLY diet... which I think I should start marketing... I could make millions...

My History teacher is leaving for 2 weeks.... she is going to China to pick up her newly adopted baby (16 months)... if we go to class when she is gone we get extra credit on our midterm... and on this Thursday class is canceled... (we have to do some stupid online thing that takes five seconds instead of doing class) My history textbook is actually interesting, it isn't really textbookish... it is more novelish... and all the questions that she is going to ask us are opinion questions with short answer/essay answers...

Miami/FSU game is this upcoming Monday at I think 8:00... going to be exciting... hopefully we will win for the first time since I became a Seminole.

I have been asking around and it turns out that most people in my major don't have over a 3.0 GPA, they all have like 2.8s and stuff... so it is really looking like I am a strong contender for the National Security Agency scholarship that I want...

I might be a TA next semester, but I am afraid of looking stupid... but if I am a TA I get paid at least $10 an hour and no matter how much you work you get paid for 20 hours a week... so if I did that, and this, and the website I would be a full time employee and might be able to get a faculty decal...

I might be getting Gmail in the next few weeks... which is an invite only thing... so I am excited... (Gmail is Google's new mail thingy that is all the rage) I will be able to invite some people after I have had the account for a while... if anyone is interested let me know...

Ok, I am boring so DONE

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