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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
11:34 am	2009 Happy New Year, everyone! So, my resolution is somewhat nonstandard this year, but we'll see how it goes: For every day this year, I want to write down in a journal 3 things I learned. With 365 days x 3 things that's...1095 things I'll learn. (Feed Mategai?)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
8:41 am	Holy shit a tree just hit our house (2 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
11:53 am	December Five and Twenty A very Merry Christmas to you and yours... Here's hoping for a happy season and year(s) to come! (1 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Monday, November 17th, 2008
12:20 pm	I hate applying for jobs online, especially when the website has serious HTML errors that render it unable to process your application correctly. I mean, imagine for one minute you were mailing your resumé and cover letter at the post office. Imagine handing your envelope to the postal worker. Suddenly their eyes glaze over. They stare at the envelope, then back at you. They utter in a soulless monotone: "INVALID URL! THIS OPERATION CANNOT BE COMPLETED AT THIS TIME!" And then they tear your envelope in half. Yeah, it's kind of like that. Current Mood: frustrated (Feed Mategai?)
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
12:34 am	Election Alright Obama, you've won our hearts and our votes. Now it's time for you to put your campaign promises into action. Please, please, help this country. Make me proud to be an American again. (Feed Mategai?)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
8:04 am	And now a message from the Bleeding Obvious Council... Don't forget to vote today! (Feed Mategai?)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
11:47 pm	WALL-E Go see it. Now. (2 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
7:17 am	The Book List! 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them. ( Read more... ) Mind you, this list shouldn't be considered the be and end all of books. I mean, where are the nonfiction books? Just because people haven't read these books doesn't mean they don't read, either. What about magazines and newspapers. Heck, what about reading articles online? Doesn't that count too? People need to stop equating 'reading' with a small number of selections. Even if you're reading absolute trash, you're still reading, you know? I'm just saying... (Feed Mategai?)
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
11:15 pm	When I was driving home today I saw one of these go tearing by me down the highway. Huh, yeah. I'm sure that thing goes off-roading all the freaking time. You know, I have a healthy though rant-prone dislike for regular Hummers, but that? That's just stupid. Current Mood: annoyed (Feed Mategai?)
Friday, April 25th, 2008
11:45 am	How's this for Fate? So the final due date for handing in a finished thesis at URI for May graduation is today. I got my final edits and formatting approved yesterday, and was half thinking about bothering with all the printing and handing in today. Then on second thought, I decided not to tempt fate and just get it over with. Today I am sick as a dog. Sick as in me puking constantly from 3:30AM until 9:00AM. I'm a bit better now but really achy, and the only solid food I've managed today is a single saltine. Gatorade has been keeping me hydrated, thank goodness. Mind you, I haven't been sick to the point of vomit since before my brother got married. Figures it would crop up now, eh? I am so incredibly glad I handed it in yesterday, otherwise I'd be royally screwed. The best thought I could come up with if I hadn't handed it in was that one of my parents would call off of work to bring me to URI and help me get everything printed, probably with me running into every single bathroom that crossed my path. So glad I handed it in yesterday. Today I can just rest and hopefully get better. (3 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
5:12 pm	Defense I passed under the category of 'with minor changes,' meaning I've still a few more edits to incorporate before I'm ready to hand it in for real. I've technically got until September to do this, but if I want to receive the M.S. in May rather than August or December I need to hand it in by April 25th. Of course, the defense was a major part of all of it, so for this weekend I'm just taking a rest. My arms are really sore due to all the lifting and carrying I did on Friday, though I can just blame myself for bringing so much food. Ended up at the Newman Club's Semi Formal dance that evening, so it was nice to unwind with friends. Also it meant I had somewhere to donate all the extra food so it didn't get wasted. Hurray. Also, Alexis got baptized today. She's such a cutie. She did protest a little at getting her nap interrupted with (cold) water to the face. (1 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Friday, April 11th, 2008
9:07 am	Defense Eep! (3 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
5:19 pm	Shirts n' stuff Been busy with fabric paint and t-shirts. Newest addiction: making NES sprites really big. I can stop anytime I want to, honest! ( What I've been up to recently... ) They're actually quite easy to do once you get the hang of drawing chalk grids. It really becomes kind of a paint by numbers game. Most of the difficulty is in deciding what to do, as some sprites look better than others when painted up. Current Mood: Artsy-fartsy (3 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
9:38 pm	LOL I'm posting Just a quickie: http://www.archive.org/details/xoc_SMW Everyone should go here and download this. It's a guy who covered the soundtrack to Super Mario World - one instrument at a time - and frankly it's just amazing. :P (Feed Mategai?)
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
1:28 pm	Short one I'm an aunt! (5 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
1:35 pm	Freaky Dream... Normally I don't have such disturbing dreams, but this morning's was a bit out there. It started with some scientists discovering this very well preserved mummy - probably not an Egyptian mummy, more like a bog body than anything. So they decide to dissect it. Problem is, my POV in this dream WAS the mummy. So I'm unable to move as they start an autopsy. Well, it ends up that I don't feel pain as much as tickling sensations as they very cleanly make an incision right down the front of my face - right down my nose, through the lip cleft, down through my chin. So then my head falls open like a cracked egg, leaving my brain flopping about. At that point I think I'd had enough and woke up. At that point most of the morning was already over. I think the problem is now that I sleep underground I don't have light cues to wake me up when I should. (5 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
5:05 pm	I was walking home today, and as I looked down, on the pavement at my feet was a red rose. It looked like it had just come fresh from a flower shop - still unopened, long stemmed, thorns carefully removed - and yet there it was, as if such occurrences were perfectly ordinary. But I guess some things in life aren't. Current Mood: thoughtful (Feed Mategai?)
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
4:55 pm	ARR! If ye don' know what today be, then ye deserve t'walk the plank! Avast! (1 clam(s) eaten/Feed Mategai?)
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
6:47 pm	Moving on, moving in Man, I feel like I'm an undergrad again. End of August, having a big move... I didn't move very far, just from the upstairs triple to the downstairs single. It says something if there wasn't anyone in the triple except for me for a year and change, but it was rented finally, so I had no excuse to not move. My excuse before was that the rent was cheaper (it was per room, not the whole thing), and that I was just plain lazy. To be honest, I think this new apartment's a bit nicer overall. Yes, cozier in the sense that there's only bedroom, but I really don't need spares. Odder in the sense that I'm living partially in a finished basement, but it isn't my parents', so I'm not a failure in life yet. But the place has wall to wall carpeting as opposed to the scuffed floors and throw-rugs from upstairs. Also the windows don't have holes in them. Although I'm going to have my hands full de-humidifying the basement, because the bathroom and kitchen are in there too. The plus side is that the basement is nice and cool, it's probably about 60 degrees down here. Maybe doing things like a hobbit won't be too bad afterall. Next order of business is to fix the internet. Right now I still haven't moved the modem from upstairs, so I'm kind of leeching off my own router from down here. Pretty good signal, considering it's 2 floors difference. Maybe the people moving in upstairs will want to divy up on it, and I can forget about cable bills for a while. I wish. No classes this semester, just writing. Lots and lots of writing. Current Music: Ned of the Hill - Silly Wizard (Feed Mategai?)
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
1:09 pm	The grand hampsterwheel of technological wonders... I was just doing the math... My family's first computer (well, Mac computer, the one we had before that was a Commodore 64 that had no actual hard drive)'s hard drive held 30 megabytes. The camera SD card I got for my birthday can hold 2 gigs, or 2000 megabytes (I think the standards have kept that way...). So, that SD card that a small child could accidentally swallow can hold 66 2/3 of my old computer. Yikes. For the record, that first computer was a Macintosh LC. Current Mood: contemplative (Feed Mategai?)