Well Summer classes started off yesterday bright and early at nine am in West Hall. I honestly don't even think before yesterday I'd ever ventured into west hall... well I take that back I went in there one time to see the tow tank. But that was it. SO it was fun finding class.
My Anthro-Bio class seems pretty interesting. Its about Evolution. Pretty interesting and the professor seems very well educated in the subject and she's been to like every country on this planet. haha she's a real archeologist. she really digs up bones for a living. haha I never really thought that I'd actually come across some one who does that. When I was little, that is ALL i wanted to be. I mean how fun is digging in the dirt when you are 5 years old, and to find old dinosaur bones... wow now that would be too much fun. Haha, and then I grew up and realized that not MANY people actually get to do that. She does tho. I wonder if that was also her childhood dream. If it was good for her for sticking with it. I decided to become and electrical engineer. Strange career move. I've always been an engineer at heart tho.
My Soc class so far is 'alright'. The GSI teach it is pretty funny, but I think its going to be a lot of work with all the readings and papers I have to do. I'm not much of a writer these days, so hopefully I can pull some shit out of my ass and pass this class with flying colors. I'm the only engineer in the class, I can tell. I didn't really want to even tell them I was an engineer. But I did because what the heck. They probably all think I'm weird. Oh well.
I'm pretty bored with this life I'm leading these days. My research project is sorta of standstill-ish because James is on vacation and I'm just very reluctant to code and learn VHDL. :( I need to just go do it. I should have worked on it all last week when I had a bunch of off time. But I didn't. LAME.
I'm excited for Thursday because I am going home for the weekend. Thank god. Get out of this hell hole and go see those puppies. I miss them. I feel like I never get to see them and they are growing up so fast. I do love to come home and see how much they've grown in the past week or two. This time I'll be coming home two weeks after I've seen them last so they should be a lot bigger. AHDLJSLFj That's how they make me feel.
I am SOO glad I am done with that stupid Materials Science class. Every day I rejoice because I am not in that class. It was horrid. I don't think for the rest of my life I would want to studying anything in that class again. Well maybe the very last bit of it because I do love me some semiconductor material. haha. NIOCE.
Oh, I got a power adapter for my laptop for 10.75 on eBay stores. WAY excited. Hopefully it works and doesn't blow my computer up or anything. I feel sorta bad telling my parents because they just bought a new one for 60 bucks. :( Maybe I'll tell them it was more so they don't feel bad.
I have nothing else to say, and plus my fingers are super cold so I'm gonna go sleep probs. I'm exhausted today.
later
-JRA
So I took a nap at around 3:30 today and was only asleep for maybe an hour. I get up and check facebook because I hadn't checked it all day. Everyone's status on my news feed said that Michael Jackson was dead. I felt like I had to believe it since everyone was saying it, and most of these people have no link to each other so its not like they were playing a big joke or something. Weird. So even though I did believe them, I still looked it up and yep it was true.
I was never the biggest fan of MJ but still he was part of the pop culture of my time. When I was little I remember seeing him on TV and I didn't think he was a real person. In growing up there was the countless MJ/child molestation jokes and just jokes about him in general. There was his music of course. I wasn't really a fan, but how can you NOT listen to a song my MJ if it comes on the radio. So over all it was a shock to me that he was dead. I guess I just never pegged him as old. He was only 50 but for some reason in my mind he was younger. And to have died from a heart attack... scary.
On another note, I have air conditioning in my apartment right now. Way excited about that. It has been 90+ these past few days and I don't think that I could have survived if I didn't have air. AHHH!!! My dad came down yesterday and installed it for me. :) I was so happy. Tony also was here last night. We made coney dogs and watched a movie. I had a horrid headache and eventually just fell asleep.
Today was pretty boring. I had to work at the lab for a few hours. We got pretty frustrated and ended up leaving. We have a lot to learn/do on that project and its sorta of discouraging when nothing goes right and the code is impossible to deciliter. Whatever.
I'll leave you with the much anticipated pictures of the puppies. I think I'm gonna go on a bike ride for a while. Later.
Well I took my final exam today. Finally. I really don't think I did that horrid on it but whatever as of right now I don't really care. Its all over and that's all that really matters to me(right now).
Got the first(of many) phase of our project to work today. It was pretty exciting. TO see something actually work sorta makes me like engineering. Its when everything goes wrong that I get really frustrated and just want to give up. Really what we did today was sorta lame, we just got serial transmission to work. I suppose that's not really a daunting task but I've never taken a communications class, and I only started to code in VHDL like a month.5 ago so I it was hard for me(us). We now have a TON of work a head of us. Hopefully we can get it done eventually.
Blah, its sooo hot in my apartment. My dad is coming down tomorrow to install an air conditioner for me. I cannot wait!!! It's rather large so it should cool like my entire apartment. NICE. It will be so nice to come in from the HOT out side and actually be able to be comfortable and not have to strip down to underwear and take cold showers. :) Can't wait.
Tony's coming down tomorrow to. We are gonna hang out and have a decent day. We are both like MEGA poor right now so we don't plan on doing much of anything, maybe go on a bike ride if its not TOO hot out side. Its supposed to be like 93 tomorrow. SICK. I hate heat and sometimes I hate summer, other times I don't really mind it.
Well I really don't have much to write about. My days are all sorta blending together. All I know is tomorrow is Wednesday and I have a meeting at 3:45 for an hour and then my dad is coming down to install a godsend. :)
I will write later when my life is more exciting... hopefully soon.
