Posts tagged with "university"

The Sky Sets My Mood

I stepped out­side today, on the dry, white, lone­ly con­crete. Every morn­ing I go out­side, I open the steel door and the sky sets my mood.

I man­aged to pass my DNA and Quantum Computing mid-term with a 67% (some­how), but I failed my Networking and Communications mid-term with a 51%, where 55% is need­ed to pass. There’s only one mid-term left that I haven’t got­ten back yet, but I don’t think it looks good.

I watched the first half of Safe, and it’s an inter­est­ing movie so far, con­cern­ing envi­ron­men­tal issues. Julianne Moore plays the tro­phy wife of a high class Babbitt who starts to be over­come by health effects. It’s not real­ly my pre­ferred type of sub­ject mat­ter, but I’ll still fin­ish the movie. Julianne get­ting her hair permed is rea­son enough for me.

I’ve been lis­ten­ing to my met­al mix this entire week, and I sus­pect that I might lis­ten to it for a lit­tle while longer.

Switching To Humans, Mid-Term Results, And Residual Emotions

I think I’ll be switch­ing my race to Humans, which is quite a big deci­sion. I’ve nev­er been good with micro­man­age­ment, espe­cial­ly in Starcraft. It’s like some­thing I was­n’t raised with, so I can’t get bet­ter at it, the way you see old­er peo­ple hit a lim­it in their two word-per-minute typ­ing speed. In Starcraft I think I hit a lim­it where I just could­n’t get any bet­ter, which com­plete­ly sucked, because I was­n’t that good any­way. I think that by prac­tic­ing with Humans, I’ll be bet­ter at learn­ing how to micro­man­age. I’ve been sucked back in by Warcraft 3. It’s hard for me to imag­ine jug­gling a top 10 rank on the lad­der, and hav­ing a girl­friend at the same time.

Somehow I got 94.5% on a mid-term (even though the aver­age was about 90%). It makes up for oth­er mid-terms I sup­pose, since I believe that I failed two of them. I’ll be able to defer the marks, how­ev­er, for my Networking and Communications mid-term, to my final exam. That makes my assign­ments worth a pid­dly 15%, and my final a mon­strous 85% of my final mark. Yay, I guess.

Something made me sad the oth­er day, which has­n’t hap­pened in a while. I seem to usu­al­ly keep a very lev­el set of emo­tions nowa­days. It’s odd, because when I start­ed dat­ing Christie, things seemed to look bet­ter, and when we broke up, they seemed to still look bet­ter. I’m not real­ly sure why. It’s like Christie helped me expe­ri­ence things that were good, so now I have those thoughts in my head.

Getting Things In Order

I just fin­ished the bulk of my mid-terms, though prob­a­bly not unscathed. I hope that I can pass all of them, but I believe that I only passed one or two so far. I only have one left to go, but it should be much sim­pler, as I have the week-end to study for it. I believe that the prob­lem this time was the fact that the three hard­est mid-terms were bunched togeth­er in three con­sec­u­tive days. That, and the fact that I should pay atten­tion in class instead of try­ing to res­cue Baby Mario from Baby Bowser. Quite the excuse.

I get to go out for lunch tomor­row at a place called The Black Tomato, as a co-work­er is mov­ing to a dif­fer­ent divi­sion office in anoth­er city, and the work­ers here want to say good­bye. This means that I should be able to get an extra half-hour off work, and hope­ful­ly I can get drunk before con­tin­u­ing for the rest of the work day. I’ve only actu­al­ly been ine­bri­at­ed at work twice before, both times from a drink­ing lunch as well. I hope they have Strongbow or Double Diamond on tap.

Louise asked me today how I can walk with my pants so bag­gy. I told her that walk­ing was easy, because it feels like you’re not walk­ing with pants on at all, which, I imag­ine, is a good thing.

I felt unkempt for most of the week, until today, after I was final­ly able to get a hair­cut, wash my dish­es, clean my room, and just gen­er­al­ly get things in order.

Mid-Terms And Conditioner

I think I’m com­plete­ly fucked for my mid-terms. It usu­al­ly takes some fail­ing at the begin­ning of the term to tell my brain that I need to get my ass in gear. So usu­al­ly I’ll fail the mid-term, then do fine on the final. It’s like I need to know that I’m fail­ing to pres­sure myself to do bet­ter. I’ve cer­tain­ly got the first part down well; I got a 18.5% algo­rithms assign­ment hand­ed back to me yes­ter­day, and 45% project pro­pos­al. I hope to do bet­ter. It is NOT a good time to get addict­ed to Warcraft 3.

I bought some Infusium 23 for my ter­ri­bly dam­aged hair that Natalie rec­om­mend­ed to me, and it’s amaz­ing. It real­ly is as good as the con­di­tion­er that comes with hair dye kits.

What I Did In My Third Year Of University

I’m feel­ing very com­fort­able right now. A show­er just turned the activ­i­ty in my brain from trans­la­tion­al to vibra­tional. Writing from my sec­ond com­put­er allows me the com­fort to recline in a relax­ing seat, and the lux­u­ry of watch­ing a doc­u­men­tary on 2Pac, the thug poet from the west sii­i­ide, on my oth­er com­put­er at the same time.