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Apr. 30th, 2005

Apr. 1st, 2005

04:37 am - Last day of the new year

So its like almost five in the morning, and i gots to write some shit. Kinda in the mood, partially becuause I just downloaded Jay-Z's first cd, because I realized I didn't have it on my computer/ipod, and that i haven't listened to it since like 1995 or something like that, and cuz this one dude told me to play a song off it and i didn't have it. Anyway, livejournal was still open and i was logged in, so I went to say update journal and typed in the title that you see. I wonder what the hell that could mean? New Years eve, or like today. Well anyway, the point is that it's April Fool's Day, a cool day that i seem to forget about too much to really enjoy. I remember like my entire life i would get to school on april fools day, and like not realize what it was until it was too late. Luckily im not going to fall asleep and im going to stay up all night and pull some crazy shit. Or maybe i'll pass out in a few minutes and miss my god damn 9:35 class. The funny thing is that my 935 is psych, which i love and enjoy, but because of what time it is, i never go, whereas some classes i'm not a big fan of but end up going like every time. Actually although i was referring to uw, im glad i got into this one, ciz it introduced me to a cool world i would have never really looked into. Anyway, its like day nine for me, and im feeling pretty good, in some ways, but my life has all of a sudden turned crazy. Ive been going to class, like doing work sometimes, ive gone to the library like three times in the past couple of weeks. Done my reading for class, looked ahead at assignents enough that i think im going to get the assignment for a psych paper i have due wednesday from one of my friends this weekend instead of waiting until tuesday night and banging on her door til she wakes up and lets me see what the paper's suposed to be about. Yeah, so im not sure why i wrote all that stuff, but whatever, rather than watch my roommates play mario kart, im goin to sleep. Peace the shizzle izzle.

Current Mood: curious

Current Music: Jay-Z - 22 two's

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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.

Current Mood: bored

Current Music: The sounds of movie trailers.

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Mar. 26th, 2005

08:09 pm - Day 3

A couple of days ago I began to prepare for my hardest test this year. I can't hit the sweet leaf for about another couple of weeks, and i'm not sure what to do with my self. Unfortunatly this gives me a lot of time to think about my life and why i've been playing target practice with my future, which happens to be the only time i can aim for shit. For some reason, even with this special opportunity i'm still not helping myself out. I did learn at least one lesson though. All along it's actually been those newports that make me cough up nasty shit every morning. I kinda wish i could use some of my willpower to take cigarettes of my list of vices instead, but nows not the time.

Current Mood: thoughtful

Current Music: X to the mothaf**kin Z

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Mar. 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.

Current Mood: thirsty

Current Music: Kottonmouth Kings

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Mar. 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.

Current Mood: peaceful

Current Music: Let me ride Dr. Dre

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Mar. 10th, 2005

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.

Current Mood: anxious

Current Music: my ipod broke

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03:59 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.

Current Mood: grateful

Current Music: silence

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Mar. 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.

Current Mood: blah

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Mar. 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.

Current Mood: calm

Current Music: Moby

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12:18 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.

Current Mood: thankful

Current Music: MF Doom

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Mar. 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.

Current Mood: hungry

Current Music: A Tribe Called Quest represent represent

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Feb. 14th, 2005

04:20 pm - The Riddler

Class is a little bit boring. In c++ we are now learning about logarithms and exponents. Why review math in programming class? Actually i dont really care, i just wish we could get math credit for it. I guess i shouldn't really complain, since im really just surfing the web and stuff, not really learning too much about writing a finite series. Plus, even if i want to go back and learn something, i can just go download the powerpoint presentation that we are using in class. I can go back and review the slide about using pointers to link lists whenever i want. Thats not even my favorite part of the class. I can also listen to all of my awesome music, and read articles about the new Neo-Matrix game. Which looks pretty cool, by the way. Uh-Oh, i have to pay attention for a minute, we're talking about big-o notation. My bad, its called Big-Oh notation, and is actually just a silly way to make equasions look simple.

I'm also dying of a terrible sickness. I'm not sure what the disease is called, but it makes me cough, feel kinda bad and not wake up for class. It also makes me go through about seven hundred cough drops. Luckily i get the cheap cvs brand cough drops so its not too taxing. By the way, after playing around with cvs's website for a while, i found that they sell Oderless Garlic Tablets. Apparently they help the circulatory system without messing up your breath. I'm not about to try them out, but im really glad that products like this are avalible for people who dont like the taste and smell of garlic, or who would rather get the nutritional value of a garlic bulb in the form of a pill. They also sell grape seeds, but the link isnt worth it.

Current Mood: calm

Current Music: Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight

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02:19 pm - Brain Melt

Hey, i have a bad habit of always waiting until the last minute to do stuff. I woke up late today, got out of the shower late, and will proubly get to class late. Whatever. I have some stuff that slows me down, so its not all my fault. My room key never works until the 10th try at least, and i broke it in half the other day. I taped it back together, and it still works, but on average it will take me at least two or three minutes to open my door. Oh yeah, i didnt know what else to do, but i just got an email from my dad with a cool link about blogs. Its just another article about someone getting fired because of their blog, but my dad always sends me stuff that he thinks i would be interested in, or that might be relevant to a class. I'm actually alsmost late for class right now, so after i print some stuff out, im going to be running down H street towards my class. Proubly in the rain.

Current Mood: tired

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Feb. 13th, 2005

09:15 pm - Go With The Flow

I just thought of a cool tie between my last post about work and blogs. There is actually and online journal that i found last summer called the AMC Theatres Coworkers' Journal. Without even realizing it, i was reading blogs long before i really knew what they were. The Coworkers journal is actually super cool. I still like to check it and read people's AMC stories, because i can realte to every one of the stories, and usually get a good laugh out of them. The only problem it that everyone who posts on that journal is a loser. I may write something over there now that i have a livejournal account, but dont count on it. Whatever, i'm hoping i can think of some cool story from work that i have, but i cant really think of one. Actually, I was just reading the amc coworker's journal, and there was a posting about Mozilla Firefox vs. Internet Explorer. This is actually an issue that i am very concerned about. The statistics say that while firefox remains 500 percent better than internet explorer, ie still is used by 70 percent of all people. Now, this may sound as if i'm lying, but i only made up one of those statistics, and even the one i made up was more or less true. Internet explorer, being built into windows, can cause major damage to your computer when it is in a close situation with spyware and viruses. Firefox also has many more features such as pop-up blocking, and tabed windows. Mozilla, is a much less demanding program as far as speed and memory are concerned. Anyway, i have converted many people, and will continue to try until microsoft releases a better browser.

By the way, Microsoft has moved up a little bit recently, for me at least. They released AntiSpyware, an amazing program, which does wonders in comparison to Spybot Search and Destroy or Ad-Aware. After running both of those programs, i ran microsoft antispyware, and it found a fair ammount of bad stuff. There are some things i dont like about this software. Before you can download the program, you are asked to validate your copy of windows. This is to make sure that you cant have your copy of windows stolen and copied. It also means you can't even install it on another one of your computers. After this first attempt to gather tons of information on everyone in the world and their computers, microsoft takes another stab once the actual instalation begins. They invite you to join the 'worldwide SpyNet™ community', and allow your computer to communicate with microsoft, this suposedly will help improve the software and keep it on top of new spyware. Oh well, both things are optional, and i really dont know anything about the subject, i just like to complain about it.

Current Mood: high

Current Music: MF Doom - Operation: Greenbacks

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08:40 pm - Verses from the Absract

I just thought that maybe i would share some amusing moments from my job at home. When I am at home, in St. louis Missouri, I work at the AMC Creve Coeur 12, a movie theater near my house. I've been working there for a little more than two years, and have come to enjoy it very much. I was back at work over winter break, and was reminded of how much fun it used to be. About a week after i got into town for winter break, I was working on a monday night, and was called over to the box office to deal with a customer. It was a weekday, and i'm an assistant manager, so i had to talk to him. Apparently, this man, about 60 years old, kind of overweight, who happened to be coming to the movies with his three grandchildren ages about 6 to 13, was yelling and cursing at one of our workers. I went and talked to the guy who had aparently cut in front of some people but insisted on being helped first, and just because i didnt want to worry about it, i just sold him the tickets even as he yelled at me. So later on, about half an hour into the movie, we have several people run out of a movie, which is actually pretty full, to tell us that a fight broke out. I ran in with a couple of other people to see the man who had been yelling in the ticket line being led out by a cop who was in the audience. The man continued to yell, and they came out followed by the three embaressed grandchildren. After being threatened with arrest the man accepted a full refund and left. After the movie we handed out free passes to everyone. Anyway, that was like the most work i've ever had to do ever, and it was kinda fun.

Current Mood: good

Current Music: MF Doom - Doomsday

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04:27 pm - Vibes and Stuff

For some reason, this time, the white space that i'm slowly trying to fill up with words seems a little bigger. Whatever, I've just been playing around on the internet for a while, and i found a few things that i thought would be fun to link to in my blog. I just got an email today from my grandma, and she was talking about her flower aranging. My grandma's favorite passtime is ikebana. She actually has a really cool title in the local group, like grandmaster or something like that. She actually just got her promotion to that skill level like a year ago and was presented with a scroll by the head of the ikebana group who is like 14 years old. The ikebana is part of some local buddhist group and the leader inherited the highest position recently. Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool.

Oh yeah, ikebana is not all i read about on the internet today, and im not sure if thats good or bad. Actually, im not really sure what i did. Played some Mah Jong. A bunch of people told me it was a really cool game, but i didn't like it that much. Maybe its because im not too good at it.

Current Mood: chipper

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02:34 pm - Skills to Pay the Bills

Yeah, I took a nice long nap just now, i have the most insane sleep scheduale ever. The other day I was in the library for six or seven hours, and when I woke up I kinda jumped, because I forgot I was in the library, and tossed my book up, and it hit this girl in the head. I think she was sleeping, because I didn't even notice her move, and she didn't make any sound. And when I went over to apoligize, I tried to wake her up, but i guess she was pretty tired. So I just left. Anyway, I just woke up from a nap, and aparently, while i was sleeping, the christmas lights that are on the ceiling fell down and managed to wrap themselves around my leg. It wasn't too bad, but i have a feeling that a lot of people are going to trip over them in the next few weeks before we clean up. I'm actually about to start working on my latest programing assignment, which is to rewrite a vector program that the assignment used to be, and change the class to support multi-dimentional arrays and create a matrix class. Its actually pretty crazy.

So anyway, I was thinking about what more to say, and then i thought of one thing that i'm always thinking about and never doing. I need a job. I have zero money, i owe my dad hellas, and I got tickets and bills and stuff that i gotta pay. Its also really annoying to run around town seaching for a store that will accept GWorld for cigarettes. Its even worse at three in the morning. Even if i fill out an application once and a while, I never go back when they dont call me. For some reason, i am scared to activly pursue getting a job. Plus, I would lose so much time from my studies. Well, maybe someday i get those skils to pay the bills but until then, i dont know what im going to do.

Current Mood: indifferent

Current Music: Viktor Vaughn - Never Dead

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