THIRTY-FIRST Happy New Year, kick ass for me. I'm going to watch Spinal Tap and clean up my laptop.
TWENTY-NINTH I kind of forgot about this and anytime I remembered, I had nothing to say. In the past ten days I: cleaned my bedroom and already made it messier went to the airport to pick up Nina in the middle of the night gotten baby slobber on every article of clothing received everything (except socks) I wanted for Christmas went to Spiral Diner and ate a mudslide been in Eman's new car been in Natalie's new car driven my dad's car had Superbad and pizza night and cutoff about thirteen inches of my hair.
Now, I want to: celebrate the new year with a bang clean up the room for real paint some shirts and do some other shit.
New Year's could be here or in Austin, I have no idea. My hair kind of sucks right now, but Nina's is kind of kickass. Speaking of kickass, I don't know how to wear my new shoes without feeling like a boy. Now, with my short hair, I COULD be mistaken for an Asian boy? Oh geez.
NINETEENTH It's slightly frustrating when you go somewhere with money in your pocket and plans to buy things (like presents) and find nothing. Kind of like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, only I don't have that much money, the people at the stores weren't snooty and I wasn't dressed like a hooker. I guess it's not really like that.
It's really amazing when you find songs that you listened to years ago all over again. Jackpot.
EIGHTEENTH Okay, so I missed the SEVENTEENTH, but I have good reason! Yesterday was very busy with trying to study, going to Eman's graduation, eating with her family, driving back to Austin and studying for most of the night. I slept a couple of hours last night, but the good news is, I'M DONE. Well, I'm done (for real) after my last library shift of 2007 tonight. I nearly forgot that I had to work today and thought I was either going shopping for last Christmas presents or sleeping until the afternoon. Now I have time for leisure reading!
Now until Friday night, I'm in Austin with no work and no school. This feels good.
Meanwhile, I can take a nap now, before work! See you.
THIRTEENTH After a three hour final and a ridiculously hectic day at the library, I am taking a few hours to rest before I get started on acoustics. I definitely do not look forward to this time of every semester because of the people that return all fifty of their checked out books at once. It took me about five minutes to pull the bin out of the book drop and forty minutes to check the books in, with the help of two other people. SRSLY, guys (and girls), can we turn in our books at their respective libraries? Just drive by the PCL on a weekend and haul them there. Oh, complaining about work.
You know what would make the library better? See, if some random attractive patron needed help finding a book and I came to their rescue and they hit on me in a tasteful way, this would make it somewhat interesting. Funny, at the least. This never happens because I work at the engineering library where people hate me and attractive patrons are hard to come by. Ouch!
I am ridiculously good at making lists planning out my days but I am even better at not following them. The goal for today though, from now on, is to clean the apartment, start packing a little and get through bullets 1-4 on the acoustics overview. LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN (after I eat dinner).
Update: I am not visiting Houston. I'll be in Austin for my last final and a couple of/few days after, so if anyone is still here, let's do something! since the library won't let me work anymore. No one in Austin reads this, oh well.
Nina is in a snow storm right now! Stay warm!
ELEVENTH I'm slightly overwhelmed about the things I need to do but all I can think about is being done with school and home relaxing with friends and family, reading and crafting, celebrating and partying, hanging and lounging. Unfortunately, I cannot do any of this until after at least my first exam.
Here are my potential plans: now until Thursday morning - study Thursday 13 - Mechatronics final Friday 14 - Natalie's graduation Saturday 15 - go back to Grand Prairie, Natalie's graduation party Sunday 16 - study Monday 17 - Eman's graduation, go back to Austin Tuesday 18 - Acoustics final, (if somehow possible) go back to Grand Prairie Wednesday 19 - drive to Houston with AndrewK and Donna Thursday 20 - in Houston Friday 21 - drive to Austin Saturday 22 - drive back to north Texas, Eman's graduation party, Nina comes home
Will this all be possible? Let's see. If not, I may just have to scrap the Houston idea which will make me sad, but it is a lot of travelling involved and I don't want anyone to have to drive terribly out of the way for me. Maybe I will just stay in Austin for a little while until I can somehow get home. I can work at the library and shelve the million books people are returning, have pizza, and get paid.
I am so screwed. I did my semester-ly Excel grade-sheets and if certain things go well, this semester will barely bring up my GPA. If even.
SEVENTH Nina has been on my ass about updating today so I stick to my prime numbers plan. This one is for you.
Today was the last day of classes and I can hardly believe how quickly this semester has flown. I'm almost not ready for it to be over, mostly because I'm not ready for what comes soon after. The graduating, the job-hunting, the moving, the everything, I'm not prepared. I'm going to suck it up and be the adult I'm supposed to be.
The past two days have been hangout with friends times that I've much enjoyed. I'm glad that I've been able to play catch up with people I don't talk to often or am hardly able to actually talk to about real content. But it's really weird when you're discussing things and find that you stand on complete opposite sides of the spectrum on a topic, not like everyone I know should feel the same way I do about everything. It just kind of makes me take a step back and realize how few things I have in common with some people.
I'm having some trouble seeing where I fit. I'm having some trouble seeing a lot of things. All I see are day dreams, pretend scenarios. Is it possible to be a hopeless optimist?
The other day, my acoustics class visited another hidden room on campus, the reverberation room. It was basically just a concrete room that used to be a water tank. We walked into some lab in the ENS, unlocked the wooden floor opening, and climbed down a ladder into this empty concrete room. Everyone in the lab was really curious about the class and what the ladder sticking out of the floor was for the entire semester. A latex glove was blown like a balloon and then popped so we could count how long the sound actually existed in the room, two seconds. I have thoroughly enjoyed taking this class and going on all the little adventures to rooms I never knew existed. Wilson, I'll see you at the final and in DSC!
As for my other classes, I can't say I've enjoyed them so much, mostly just glad they're (almost) complete. Have you gone to take a test and as soon as the TA hands out the tests, you look at the first page and think to yourself "I'm fucked" which is soon followed with laughter from the majority of the class? This is how my theoretical portion of the mechatronics lab test went today. The class looked and laughed. Given, if we truly learned, we should have known exactly how to calculate the voltage of these two op amps, but since the lecture class taught hardly anything, we're all failing that test. The first test had an average of about 15 (of 100) on the theoretical part. You'd hope the professor would think that something was wrong with the picture, but apparently tenure professors don't care.
You can go your own way. (Go your own way.)
FIFTH I am going to update on prime numbers of this month. (Or at least try) Starting now, I missed 2.
Eman and I were trying to compile albums of 2007 lists, and I have six, not five, not ten. Also, I have hardly been paying attention to what comes out, but here, I'll go first! In band-alpha order!
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Malajube - Trompe L'Oeil Eman informed me that this came out in 2006 Maritime - Heresy & the Hotel Choir Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Sank Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer Radiohead - In Rainbows
integrate that: if i didn't re-discover of montreal, i'd be okay. (with just five) integrate that: that album won a trip to my heart fast. hahaha
I wonder if any good new albums are coming out in the next few weeks. Here is my list of On Repeat not new albums for the year:
The Blow - Paper Television Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene David Bowie - Best Of Girl Talk - Night Ripper Rilo Kiley - Execution of All Things
It will be noted that my favorite singles so far, that I can think of, are: Justice - D.A.N.C.E. and Kanye West - Stronger.
THIRD [ADDIN: Does anyone know anything about the discontinuation of compact discs in the year 2012? I can't believe it until I see it, and I can't find anything about it.
A part of me wants to randomly run into people and be like 'HEY REMEMBER that time that we went on a date?' or 'HEY REMEMBER that one time we made out?' I can only see that going poorly. The likeliness of that ever happing is never. Sometimes I think stupid things.]
I am officially done with J. DONE. I think the presentation went decently, however, I bet my section was a little confusing because I dropped half of what I was going to say because Seepersad gave me the one-minute mark. Oh well, it's over! Will J-team hit down town this weekend? Let's see! I can show all of the guys how red I can really get, hah.
How come I didn't start listening to Of Montreal until now?
How come yesterday was eighty degrees and today is fifty?
How come I always go from Kanye to Bjork?
Please let me get my eight dollar check and two tee-shirts in the mail soon! Pull through, postal service, you can do it! I am waiting in anticipation.
Also, Nicki elf'd us Sausalito ladies. I love our faces!
FIRST I tried all I could to stay in the computer lab all day today working on Pro/E and ANSYS CAD work, but it only ended up being seven-and-a-half hours of not getting enough accomplished. It turns out that all of the tutorials and project are not due on the last class day but instead the fourteenth. According to the calendar, that gives me plenty of time now, however, there are plenty more things to do. The plus side of starting next week is how J will be complete on Monday! I just have to get through a presentation first.
Someone remind me that my laptop settings make colors much more subdued.
Nina and I were talking about how there is this sweater that has been worn by my dad, Nicole, me and Nina. I loved that sweater and I'm pretty sure so did everyone else that wore it. Unfortunately, we only have pictures of Nina wearing that sweater, maybe my dad too, but I thought it'd be neat if all four of us had a picture wearing it. Side by side, how the times change, the people change, the sweater stays the same. I think I've sewn up holes in it. Hurray for thirty year old sweaters.
I have mailed out a bulk of Christmas/Holiday packs/cards and I know that some have received and some have not. Now begins the prime mailing time where cards that take two days to arrive actually take a week. Some are still on their way to being mailed!
Weather, will you chill? I don't know whether to turn on the heater or the air conditioner!
Some of you might receive in this mail, but here is my Christmas mix (like every other mix out there):
'Snowflake Music' from Bottle Rocket - Mark Mothersbaugh
The First Song - Band of Horses (They are touring in February!)
Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland - Grandaddy
The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes
Last Christmas - Jimmy Eat World
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Death Cab For Cutie
Christmas Party - The Walkmen
Happy Xmas (War is Over) - John Lennon
Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney
Donde Esta Santa Claus - Guster
Christmas with You is Best - The Long Winters
Father Christmas - The Kinks
I was a Kaleidoscope - Death Cab For Cutie
Cold White Christmas - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
New Year's Eve - The Walkmen
Donna and Blitzen - Badly Drawn Boy
My neighbors played CYHSY's self-titled last night when I was trying to get some sleep and all I could was mentally sing to the songs. I should blast Some Loud Thunder tonight.
