Monday, March 31, 2008
3 Pet Peeves
1. Lost Ticket at a Morgantown Parking Garage. That's a $25 mistake. I've let it go, but at the same time, I'm more upset that its $25 for a lost fucking ticket in a Morgantown Parking Garage. Even in Pittsburgh, the city with THE HIGHEST PARKING TAXES IN THE FUCKING NATION a lost ticket at the soldiers and sailors garage was something like $15 or $20, assuming one of the poor college students wouldn't just feel bad for you and open the gate and let you out scott free. Shitty way to end a night where I overspent anyway.
2. I recently received the compliment that it looks like I've lost weight. I have, thank you for noticing. Just don't grab my arm, squeeze it, and say, 'You're starting to get emo'. I don't need anyone pointing out that I've lost a lot of the muscle mass I gained last year. A relationship gone bad, grad school, a side project, and working full time with an hour lost to commuting will eat into your physique.
3. People who take advantage of their former best friends deepest fear -- their fear of being strangled. And then brag about it to people.
Books I'm reading:
Children Of Dune and Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
2. I recently received the compliment that it looks like I've lost weight. I have, thank you for noticing. Just don't grab my arm, squeeze it, and say, 'You're starting to get emo'. I don't need anyone pointing out that I've lost a lot of the muscle mass I gained last year. A relationship gone bad, grad school, a side project, and working full time with an hour lost to commuting will eat into your physique.
3. People who take advantage of their former best friends deepest fear -- their fear of being strangled. And then brag about it to people.
Books I'm reading:
Children Of Dune and Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Labels: late night thoughts, personal, ramblings
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Ramblings in the key of Log Base 2
Wow. Been a while.
Is anyone still reading this?
Soo.... updates:
I canceled my spring break trip to NYC to visit JSC and EK because I had a terrible head cold that left with a cough that vaguely resembled a death rattle. Didn't feel like trying to make the 7 hour drive on cough medication. Didn't feel like giving an already ill friend a dose of somebody else's germs. Also, I've been busy on a 'side project' with my friend from college Antique. Its kept me busy, but there are times where I'm just so burnt out from being in front of a computer that I need to do something else, so progress up to this point has been slow.
My laptop is back in action. I've restored what pictures and music I managed to save from my Hard Drive crash. It feels like a part of me is made whole again. One less little nagging voice in the back of the "to do" list part of my mind. Still a few kinks to work out with leopard, but I am loving spaces. Its not as good as multiple monitors, but I definitely like it for separating work/play desktops.
Grad School continues to drag on, with this semester about as intriguing as a sack of potatoes. I'm hoping I step it up and get at least a 3.5 again this semester, but I'll have to really suck it up to get through this semester. My side projects are more interesting.
People are graduating this year. Just like last year. Its this odd thing being a grad student with younger friends. The people you care about graduate and move on. Just like you did. And right now it sucks because it seems that outside of a few grad students who's lives are more stable, I'll be losing a large "crop" of friends each coming year. On the other hand, the crazies are bound to graduate and go away, so in this dark cloud, there is a silver lining.
I was recently in one of those minor emergencies. While driving to work with a co-worker, her car's brake lines failed and we lost braking power. Ever have to help out in driving a car that's going 75mph downhill that needs to stop? It made for an interesting morning. Everything turned out okay, but it was definitely a change to the morning routine. Thankfully, one of the hyper-mileing techniques is called "DWB" -- "Driving Without Brakes", so I wasn't exactly coming into the situation unprepared.
My company's casino night was pretty off the hook this year. It felt like it went a lot faster, but it could just be the completely free martini bar that I took advantage of. Either way, it rocked, and I took advantage of its proximity to Leesburg to check out the Leesburg outlet mall, where I managed to purchase some stuff on the cheap, the notable purchase being my new Diesel Messenger bag which I'll use for school when I'm not hauling around my MBP. I also had no idea that people in this country were stupid enough to pay $300 for a pair of jeans. Jesus.
There's your six pack of updates for now. More soon.
Is anyone still reading this?
Soo.... updates:
I canceled my spring break trip to NYC to visit JSC and EK because I had a terrible head cold that left with a cough that vaguely resembled a death rattle. Didn't feel like trying to make the 7 hour drive on cough medication. Didn't feel like giving an already ill friend a dose of somebody else's germs. Also, I've been busy on a 'side project' with my friend from college Antique. Its kept me busy, but there are times where I'm just so burnt out from being in front of a computer that I need to do something else, so progress up to this point has been slow.
My laptop is back in action. I've restored what pictures and music I managed to save from my Hard Drive crash. It feels like a part of me is made whole again. One less little nagging voice in the back of the "to do" list part of my mind. Still a few kinks to work out with leopard, but I am loving spaces. Its not as good as multiple monitors, but I definitely like it for separating work/play desktops.
Grad School continues to drag on, with this semester about as intriguing as a sack of potatoes. I'm hoping I step it up and get at least a 3.5 again this semester, but I'll have to really suck it up to get through this semester. My side projects are more interesting.
People are graduating this year. Just like last year. Its this odd thing being a grad student with younger friends. The people you care about graduate and move on. Just like you did. And right now it sucks because it seems that outside of a few grad students who's lives are more stable, I'll be losing a large "crop" of friends each coming year. On the other hand, the crazies are bound to graduate and go away, so in this dark cloud, there is a silver lining.
I was recently in one of those minor emergencies. While driving to work with a co-worker, her car's brake lines failed and we lost braking power. Ever have to help out in driving a car that's going 75mph downhill that needs to stop? It made for an interesting morning. Everything turned out okay, but it was definitely a change to the morning routine. Thankfully, one of the hyper-mileing techniques is called "DWB" -- "Driving Without Brakes", so I wasn't exactly coming into the situation unprepared.
My company's casino night was pretty off the hook this year. It felt like it went a lot faster, but it could just be the completely free martini bar that I took advantage of. Either way, it rocked, and I took advantage of its proximity to Leesburg to check out the Leesburg outlet mall, where I managed to purchase some stuff on the cheap, the notable purchase being my new Diesel Messenger bag which I'll use for school when I'm not hauling around my MBP. I also had no idea that people in this country were stupid enough to pay $300 for a pair of jeans. Jesus.
There's your six pack of updates for now. More soon.
Labels: blogging, crazy people, personal, Web Development
Monday, March 03, 2008
Crazy back when crazy meant something
Its sad when you realize a friend of yours is so crazy, so damaged, that they don't even realize. Its like they're in that alternate reality with invading Iraq was a good idea, WMDs were confirmed, and GWB says things truthfully.
Its shitty when you can see the damage, but they're just going about life thinking they're fabulous. Its also the moment where you can't be a buffer for them anymore, and have to cut ties.
Its shitty when you can see the damage, but they're just going about life thinking they're fabulous. Its also the moment where you can't be a buffer for them anymore, and have to cut ties.
Labels: crazy people, personal
