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Mar. 29th, 2005
12:17 am - Work
I spend most of my time at work waiting for the next person to come in and buy a movie ticket, and at times I can go 20 minutes without having anyone come up to me, so tonight i decided to write something down.
I'm kinda bored, just standing around at work, so I thought i'd jot down a short enty for the blog. Today has actually been the most productive day of my life. I wrote a proposal for an english paper, went to both of my classes, blew through a comp sci midterm with plenty of time left to make it to work on time (even though my shift started at 6 and class wasn't over until 6:15). Unfortunatly since i'm at work, i'm forced to sand behind a counter with a row of computers on it, and watch the same movie previews (Rebound, Guess Who, Ice Princess, Monster-in-Law, The Longest Yard) and ads (sprite, diet coke, american express(my favorite)). I have learned a few things today though. A cutomer came and asked when the movie rebound came out, so I looked at the movie poster and told them what it said: March 25th. That was like three days ago. So, I told them "Sorry, I have no idea, maybe we didn't get the movie," but as soon as they walked away the movie's trailer came on and said that it was coming out April 8th. So that's what I learned at work today, besides editing a paper which is what i did for a while the first few times I got bored. Now I have nothing else to say, so i'll just stare at the clock and count seconds, or wait for the funny american express commercial to come on again.
boredMar. 21st, 2005
04:50 pm - back to school
Just got back here yesterday after a fun spring break back in the coolest city in the world, also known as St. Louis Missouri. Got to see a couple of my friends from home, but not a whole lot because not too many were on spring break and stuff. Saw like every tourist attraction in the city though, and was a little disapointed by some of them. After taking the trip up the arch in the tiniest elevators in the world, i found out that the windows are actually about as big as they look from the ground, incredibly small. I did have some fun proving to friends that the arch is actually as high as it is wide. Nobody belived me, cuz it really doesnt look like it, but both dimentions are the same 630 feet. I acually just stumbled on this site that has the equation used to make the arch. I dont really understand it, but it looks kind of cool.
We saw at least one other archetectural feat while in st louis. In the Missouri botanical gardens, known to me as shaw's garden, we have The Climatron, and i found another site about its design and significance in the archetectural world.
Went on a fun adventure last night to celebrate being back in DC. Went over to Papa John's on V street, because they have some of the best pizza in the area. At least as far as papa john's goes. After that we came back to hova, and then took a nice walk over to rosslyn and took a stroll around the Marriott Key Bridge, went almost all the way to Roosevelt Island, but got tired and turned around. Then, on our way back a huge police van stops me along with four others and checks our ID's, because we didnt look old enough to be out that late. And for some reason we were walking in the middle of the street.
I actually just remembered this great quote that i read in newsweek a few weeks ago. Here is the text out of newsweek:
"I'm the George Washington of mayors. I can't tell a lie. If they didn't want the answer, the kid shouldn't have asked the question. It's me. What can I do?" - Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, on telling a fourth-grade class he'd want a bottle of gin with him if he was marooned on a desert island
And here is a link to all of that weeks quotes, because looking back, there were a lot of good ones that week. Check out the one by mike tyson, hellas funny.
thirstyMar. 11th, 2005
12:09 am - Blizzunt like a biznach
I just had my first real day of work today. Extremly exciting. I learned a little bit of stuff, and stood around for about four hours. I work with a very diverse staff, of some really cool people. I also sold movie tickets to about twenty five GW students, and about fifteen non gw students.
After work I studied for about an hour or so for my psych midterm tommarow. I think im about as prepared as i can be, because i skimmed three of the seven chapters covered by our test. I also got a tip from a former student of my profeser. She has hard tests. Wait, not hard but tricky. What am i soposed to do with that advice? Learn all the tricky stuff? That might not work. So I decided to give up. Now i am spending my time doing more important things. Watching Blind Date. Listening to Dr. Dre. Drinking hot chocolate. Misspelling things left and right, and of course writing in my criticly aclaimed blog.
A lot of cool stuff happened to me today. I did my laundry. I bought this really cool lighter. Its gold with black stripes. Its also electric. It also is plastic. It also cost a dollar and somewhere between five and fifty cents. I bought it on my GWorld, which i now have only twelve dollars and thirteen cents on. I really wish that was a different number, because i write for a frickin word count, and fifteen, as oposed to twenty one is only one word. Anyway i feel as though im moving my life in positive directions. This is mostly because i withdrew from a class that im failing. UW20, which was rediculous anyway because they make you spell stuff write. Actually i withdrew from islmic literature. 60 percent of the grade was esentially participation, and with the class at 935, i can't even make it to class much less take part in the discussion, which is hard to jump into anyway, and seems to be dominated by about 3 smart people and one stupid one, but pretty much every class discussion is likle that. I prefer to just listen and try to make myself feel cooler than anyone else by not saying anything. I love defence mechanisms. Although i didnt use any links in today's entry, i did use some tight ass html to make the word tricky appear in italics.
peacefulMar. 10th, 2005
02:44 am - There'll be plenty of time to drive when you're dead
I'm getting close to spring break, and only have a few things left to do. Withdraw from a class, do my laundry, go to work, write a c++ program, learn half a semester worth of developmental psychology, take a psych midterm, get a little sleep, party just a little bit on friday and then get on a plane back to the STL. I also have to wake up tommarow morning, hopefully sometime before one.
Here's some updates about the exciting things going on in my life. The sticky-tack on my window is still stuck there from a few days ago. I got a new room key. I lost thirty five pounds by fasting for a week. I also got my ipod back from being repaired, actually replaced, which is really cool because i love that thing.
I've picked up a job fixing the floor soda machine. About twice a day, someone pushes the change return button all the way in, so that it gets stuck. To get it out of the machine, you have to use sissors, or some other similar object and pop the button out. This usually takes anywhere from five to fourty seven tries which translates to anywhere from just a few seconds, to over an hour. Anyway, it seems as though i'm either the only one who is able to get it out, or just the only one with the patience.
I have to put a link in this entry somewhere, so i'll let anyone who reads this check out my psych textbook that i'm about to go read. You can buy this book online at amazon for a lower price than i paid for it at the stupid and overpriced GW Bookstore. Well, i'm on page 62, and have to read to page 203, so i need to get back to it, but as i am unable to go to sleep before i'll be woken up by traffic outside of HOVA, i may post again tonight. Peace out Gangstas west side for life
Mar. 7th, 2005
05:42 pm - Back Again
Yeah, so today I decide that I need to work a little harder, and I start to pay attention in class. We're reviewing for our final exam in C++. So it take us about fifteen minutes to get started, and we get a problem written on the board to figure out:
w = 5 + 7 * 2 - 8 % 3 * 3;
This problem is only used in our class because of the Modulus operator and the semi-colon at the end. The modulus (%) returns the remander you get when you divide the two numbers. Ok, so we do the math, making sure that it's done according to the Order of Operations, and we get the answer one. It was a fun exersize, and took us a couple of minutes. Ok, now that we finished the problem, we have to learn how to write the equasion as our compiler (Microsoft Visual C++) sees it. So after about a ten minute explanation, we start to work on it. After a little while longer we get the equasion in its new form:
w = 5 7 2 * + 8 3 % 3 * -;
Seems like kind of a rediculous way to spend fourty-five minutes, but I think i enjoyed it.
anxious03:59 pm - class
I've got a bunch of work to do this week. Worst part about breaks, is that right before them you get bogged down with work. Spring break will be quite fun though. There's gonna be a party in the STL this year, cuz its the coolest city in the world. Couple people are coming back to St. Louis with me, so i've been trying to think of cool places to see. We're going to check out the City Museum, which is an awesome museum built in a renovated shoe factory that was formerly owned by the Brown Shoe company.
Yeah, im sorry for writing really boring and stupid stuff, but someday I will be sent a message from above, which inspires me to, not only become a better human being, but also be a better writer.
By the way, right now, it is 68 degrees at 4 in the afternoon. How can I be expected to go to class? When it snows, we have nothing better to do than go to class. Actually we dont get snow days anyway.
gratefulMar. 6th, 2005
05:06 pm - Stakes is High
Today, it is so nice outside, i wish i didnt do any work all weekend, and have to do it all now. I was able to take a little walk to the river this afternoon. The water was actually clear today too, which is a rare occasion. Anyway, it was kind of a crazy weekend, even though im not sure exactly what happened. Friday I got to go to baltimore and see some of my friends from high school as well as a bunch of fish. I gotta go to gelman and do some work.
blahMar. 4th, 2005
01:27 pm - Wake Up
I find myself returning to the blog after only about an hour, because im kind of bored and unable to do anything productive. I've been sitting in my room for too long. There's been a huge chunk of Sticky Tack on the window for almost three days. We made bets about how long it would stay up, but I think that everyone lost. Nobody expected it to stay up for so long, but I think it is because the public was never really educated on this "Removable Adhesive Putty". Little did I know, but its purpose is actually to attach things to the wall for long periods of time without scaring the walls with unsightly marks or stains. If I had known that I would have put my money on two weeks instead of thirty seven point four six hours. Luckily it was only a bet of One Thousand fourty nine yen. I found out that that was equil to ten dollars as of today using this cool online Currency Converter. Luckily I'm smart enough not to need a converter to tell that four 40 oz's are equil to ten dollars.
calm12:18 pm - Life ain't what it seems
My sleep has been really wierd lately. I usually wake up around six in the morning, and just go in and out of conciousness for the next six or seven hours. I think that this also is why my dreams are so crazy now.
Right now I'm trying to map out the fastest and cheapest way to get to baltimore and back tonight. The problem is that the MARC trains stop running around six, but we need to leave Baltimore at like 10. After 10 all you can do is take the Amtrak, which costs more than twice as much. One cool thing about planning the trip is that I've been using this really cool website called The RideGuide. This site lets you put in any location in the area and it will give you a travel route that uses trains buses, and even walking directions once you get to the station. I was able to get directions from the foggy bottom metro stop to Penn Station in Baltimore (even though it doesnt seem too hard). Anyway the internet never fails to find amazingly easy ways to solve my problems.
thankfulMar. 3rd, 2005
04:34 pm - The Bounce
I guess i've got to tell some stories in this J to the ournal, so i've got a couple from the past couple of weeks. Yesterday I experienced the insanity of housing selection. Sitting in front of the computer for hours refreshing the screen and watching number go down slowly, I thought that next year I would be sleeping on a bench somewhere. Every fifteen minutes yells can be heard down the hallway as dorms close and options are lost. Over a period of about 4 hours my first choice dorm went from The Dakota to The West End to JBKO to Munson. Finally we ended up getting one of the last five doubles in International House. The selling point of I house is their huge balconies. I am in room 106. The first floor. There can be no balcony on the first floor. Whatever, at least it's shelter. Thats all you really need to survive anyway. Oh yeah, its also not on the vern.
Took an adventure to the apple store the other day. My ipod broke, and so I made an apointment at the Genius Bar in the Apple store for 4:35. At around four, me and my two roommates took the metro from Foggy Bottom on the Orange line and went to Clarendon. The area is really nice, and was a lot of fun to walk around in. On the way to the apple store, my friend Austin saw the dome on top of The Cheesecake Factory and thought that it was a moske. Anyway, we got to the Apple store around 4:30. There were four people ahead of me in line. We had a lot of fun playing with the computers while i waited for my name to be called. After about fifteen minutes we got bored, and i was still fifth in line. They called my name about and hour after we arrived, and when i showed the 'genius' my ipod, he told me that it was broken, but to get a replacment I had to fill out an online form and ship my ipod to apple. My help session took about twenty seconds, and I got no help at all. Anyway, it was a fun trip nonetheless.
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