irregular posting at its best

Just got over being sick, and that wasn't fun. Every 10 minutes I'd start coughing horribly, to the point where my chest and throat hurt most of the day. On top of that, twice I actually hacked stuff up out of my throat, and not the flem stuff, but real unhealthy stuff. Ya, it was less fun then reading about it.

I have good news about Will! His next post might be in Colorado. That's a very safe place, at least a lot safer than overseas, which was were he was orginally suppose to go. Anyway, his family is going to send him a valentine care package thingy, and hopefully I'll contribute something to it. He's complained about how borring his current assigment is, so I might send him us some of my anime/movies/books.

I'll have my AA degree by December, which will be a good thing. At least, I hope so. This semester will give me all my science classes, and the next fall semester will give me all my humanity/history classes I need. I'll need 3 more credit hours after that, so I'll need to take calc3 in the fall, but then I'll have my AA. =). After I get my degree, I'll still be at MCC for another semester as I finish up my prereqs to get into either USF's or UCF's engineering school. Then another two years of schooling and I'll be a software engineer! After that I will... umm... be looking for a job I guess.... err Career.

The local game store has a copy of silent hill 4. Since I currently don't own a copy (I have played it quite throughly, but don't own), I'm hoping to pick it up with my next paycheck.

I might have found some one... intresting (hehe ;) ) in my chemistry class. If anything happens, I'll write it here.

Anyway, I'm logging now. ~Night!

umm... hi

First off, soory for not posting in a while. Despite my best efforts, I still only post on a weekly basis. Which sucks.

I'm thinking about doing some freelance programming. I could really use the extra money. The only problem is I don't think I know enough of C++, C#, and VB (and I know absoultely nothing about PHP) to actually be any good at it. I also don't have a VB or C# compiler. The only one that has a license for what I need to do (IE Commercial sale of code) will cost me 300 dollars (stupid microsoft.) I'd also like to learn flash. Of course, I don't have any idea what I'd need to write a flash program. If anyone does know, feel free to tell me about it.

One of my favorite bands is releasing their first live albumn (It's their seventh...) I'm looking foreward to it, since it has a lot of songs I like from the band, while not having those long conversationthingyies. The band does some of the best instrumental work I've ever heard. On one of their more recent albumns (Symphany of Enchanted Lands 2) they had a violin/guitar duet. It was... wow. The only problem with Rhapsody is that they do these long conversation thingys in their music, which doesn't make much sense. I mean, each albumn is a story, but why stop the music and have a 2 minute rant on deamons?

I am not looking foreward to my calc test today. =(. It'll be the first one of the year. I know I know most of the stuff on it, I just hope I do well in the class. It doesn't help that the course is video confernced. I find it really hard to pay attention to a disembodied head drawing math formula on a sheet of paper, but maybe that's just me. It probably is just me.

Physics is going a little better than the vector chapter. Now it's just application of formula. No triangles right now. None!!!! =) I'm not too fond of geometry.

Anyway, I need to log. I still have some studying to do for the calc test.

Pi are round, not square!!

The title pretty much sums up my math experince so far. What we're doing in calc 2 is rotating 2d objects around an axis to produce a 3d object. Luckily, we have the equations, so no real geometry needs to be used. We're also studying the length of curves, and how to find the surface area and volume of those newly produced objects. It involves integrals, pi, and a whole slue of stuff I'd rather not be thinking about right now. On the plus side, I found out how they got the equation for the volume of a sphere. What it is is the volume of a half circle rotated around the x-axis. Ya, it consists of fun stuff.

Which isn't nearly as bad as my physics class. I'm having trouble with vectors!!!!!!!! Stupid geometry. The whole concept of vectors is this: If I were to go 5 miles north, 3 miles 23 degrees south of west, than 4 miles 57 degrees east of south, how far am I from my orginal destination? The entire process exists around drawing right triangles for each stage of the journey, than figuring out the total distance in the x direction, then figuring out the total distance in the y direction, then drawing a right triangle with one leg equal to the x value, and one legh equal to the y value, then figuring out the hypothesis, and THEN figuring out the angle of elevation. But you're still not yet done!!!! Then you have to state how much north or south you are compared to east and west, all based upon your angle of elevation. It's not fun. And I think my text book is sadistic. It is purposely vague on what answers it needs, and the text is unclear on how to do anything other than the above mentioned.

But at least I know the other people in my physics class. About half the class I know from my calc one class. And I know that, if I'm having trouble, they're diffenetly having even more trouble. Ya, physics isn't fun.

I've been spending a lot of time on metroid prime. I know I've had it since I picked up my game cube, but I haven't touched it due to other games (namely CoH.) I've gotten so addicted on it that, in order to keep my mind focused on school, I've taken the game cube mout of my room. So until the weekend, no Metroid for me.

Despite my love of vectors, I'm starting to get intrested in electromagnetism. I might not be able to spell it, but it intrestes me none the less. It's odd that a lot of things in our modern world depend upon electromagnetism, yet only a scientist or engineer could tell you what it is and how it works.

In fact, it's kind of sad. I'm not meaning electromagnetism, but on how much science is known by the general public (including me.) I mean, I was at the book store today, looking for books on the basic theories of electricity and magnetism, and the store had one section devoted to science. That includes chemistry, biology, geology, physics, and some weird religious texts (I don't know why they had those in there...)Compare that to the buisness section of the store, which had 2 sections devoted to small buisness, and another three devoted to buisness. I think we really need to become more research focused, and less buisness focused, but that's my opinion.

For metal lovers, I have a band you might enjoy. The band is called Gamma Ray. I picked up three of their albumns so far. Heading for Tomorrow, Somewhere out in Space, and Land of the Free. All three have been worth listening to, and I'd recomend Somewhere out in Space to anyone looking for a good melodic albumn.

I need to really start updating my blog more often. Yes, each post would probably be this long, but that would just mean I think a lot. Probably too much. I know it won't mean I have an intresting life. Anyway, I need to sleep. Work and pyhsics tomorrow... (no lab though, yay!!!!!!!!=) )

It is History

I can't sleep, so I decided to post on my blogg. The first thing of note is that I got to see the circus! There is something about the circus that still appeals to me, and I'm not too sure what it is. It was neat, though, to see it. They had trained house cats that performed tricks! Housecats! They also had pretty neat acrobatics, the standard elephant thing, and a few clown acts. It was very enjoyable, and different.

My friend Will and I kind of have this geeky DnD thing we've been working on for a long period of time. It's a campaign setting that, although we haven't played in it for a few years, we still write up ideas for it. It has numerous nations and coninents, and the basic theme of the setting is a balance between good and evil. The setting is politically set up similarly to the cold war, with one good superpower and one evil superpower devided by a giant ocean. The minor countries are pawns for these powers, and each country is trying to bring down the other. I do this thing with the good super power that annoys Will. A few years ago, we were playing basicly the last game we've played in the setting, and I somehow managed to be the DM. Anyway, I had the characters go to a small town north of the capital of the good country, and I didn't have a name for it, so I created one off the top of my head. I called the town Nutmeg. My friend really hated that name, and vows never to let the town stay in the setting. Just to annoy him, everytime I have something new for the good country, I place it in Nutmeg, which then produces a loud argument from Will about how Nutmeg doesn't exist, to which I just giggle at. It's fun bringing up Nutmeg to him... it just is...

My classes have started. Well, technicly, they started Thursday. Why they decided to start classes in the middle of the week I don't know, but they did. I have Calc 2, Physics, and Chem. I am not lloking foreward to Chem, largely because of how I did in it back in Highschool. I got a D in it back in Highschool, and I think that was largely because the teacher was nice. I mean, a lot of chemistry just kind of seems... unimportant to me. The entire subject is about figuring out how very small things interact with other very small things, something I don't really care for. Figuring out how to make something go boom, or how to make various things work in a chemical way, does not appeal to me. Now physics on the other hand...

Of course, with the start of the new classes, my parents bumbard me with the cliched question of "Is there any one you like in any of your classes?" They pester me more about my love life then they do my sisters, despite the fact that I've been in more relationships than they have. I mean, I will admit that I am lonely. One can easily tell that by the fact that I keep a blogg. But why they keep pestering me about it, I have no idea. But it could be worse, they could be telling me NOT to be in a relationship. I mean, I am 19... I guess they just want grandchildren, and they figure that out of their three children, I am the most likely to have kids. Kind of makes me feel bad about my sisters, though. I mean, I am a techie, and if my parents think I have a better chance...

I would like to have kids. If I could choose my future, it would include 2 children, a two story house, a white picket fence, and a place in Suburbia. I don't really want an exciting future. But I don't want to come home to an empty apartment, either. I'm afraid that that will be how my future will end up, with me working long hours at work just so that I don't have to view how crappy my social life is. It doesn't look too good right now. Right now, epic social events are hanging out with one or two friends at the local Dennys. My social life is pretty pathetic.=(

I'm a techie, though, because I didn't fit in with anything else when I was younger. I wasn't one of the popular kids, I wasn't into anything that any one else was into, so life was pretty lonely. On top of that, we were in the only house in our neighborhood that had children, so that wasn't good. So I got into gaming. Sim City, Civilzation, Tetris, Mario, Metroid, those where what I did while younger. They're still what I do, and is probably why I have the world's best social life. Would I change my past, though? I mean, I wouldn't want to be one of those preppy, stuck up, popular girls, but to be something inbetween the loner and the popular ones, ya. But if that happened, I probably wouldn't have met the people I know now. Which would be a bad thing. I wouldn't trade my friends for the world, even those obscure friends who I only hear from once in a great while because they're never online **ahem**ahem**. But I do wish I was one of the middle of the line social-ish girls. Maybe I wouldn't be lonely, then.

Anyway, now my mind is kind of empty, so I should be able to get some sleep now. Anyway, night!~

Back from the great white North

Well, I'm back from Wisonsin. Truthfully, I've been back since the Friday before Newyear's Eve, but catching up with everything hasn't given me enough time to post.

The wake was last Monday (not yesterday.) It was held in the local funeral home. We arrived early, along with my aunts and grandfather. The casket was beuatiful, and it was an open casket. It was just kind of sad to see her there. Every time I looked at her she seemed almost ready to get out of the casket and tell us to take off our shoes least we dirty the place. My Grandmother was dressed in a purple dress, and it was just... ya, not too happy. The casket was surronded by lovely flowers, all of purple and white, which were her favorite colors. Than about half an hour after we arrived, the rest of the relatives and friends arrived. There must have been at least a hundred people. Probably more.

The funeral itself was held the next day. It was held at the local lutheren church, and it was a very nice service. There was a lunch afterwards, and then the burial, which was 45 minutes away from the town. Afterwards, about 20 people, including myself and my Grandfather, went bar hopping, which I thought was kind of strange. I did get to see a white Christmas, which was kind of nice. Espicially since it's 70 degrees here in Florida.

The car ride up and down wasn't the world's most comfortable. I'm about average size, but my two sisters aren't. They are no where close to average size, and it proved to be a very cramped, uncomfortable 18 hours up, and another 18 hours down. The car trip, though, made me realize how poor most Florida drivers are. On the way home, we drove through most of the country with out any problem, but when we hit our home state, all it was was people infornt of us serving around lanes, and the people behind tail gating. Not fun.

I kind of miss Wisconsin right now. It might be the weather I miss. Although I dislike snow, there was something about the cold and the gray skies that made me feel at home. Ya, the happiest setting, I know. It might also have been that, since there was nothing else to do, we all did stuff together. My family doesn't do that too often. Most of the time I barely see anyone in my immediate family. Maybe that's what I liked about Wisconsin.

As for some of the stuff I would have said in the previous post, well... A band I enjoy listening to, Nightwish, has gotten rid of their lead singer. The reason is that they thought she was a little bit prima donna ish. Of course, she is considered the best vocalist in Finland, so she might have a right to be prima donnaish. But that's not what bothers me about the break up. It's that they posted an insultive note on their website about her, and I think that's just low. If you're going to kick some one out, at least have the curtsey to let them decide on weather or not it should be on the site. Don't publicly insult someone you've been on good terms with for 10 years.

I should remember not to leave work for a week next time. There was just a lot of little things to do in the place. It doesn't help that my boss also took half days for the entire week. So when I got back... it wasn't pretty.

I finally have a PSP. So far I like it. I got it on Newyear's Eve. I've been logging some time on Tony Hawk and Darkstalkers. I've been a fairly big Tony Hawk fan since #4, and now that I finally own one... it's just too easy of a game for me to buy normally... As for Darkstalkers, one guess as to which character I normaly. But the game is just fun. The bulk of the characters look cute, it's kind of gothy, and it reminds me of the SNES. Other than those three things, what else could one need for a good game?

I haven't had any desire to write since I left, but when I do, I'll post it here. I hope everyone enjoyed how the Feline Fellowship saved Christmas. I know it was kind of childish, but...

Anyway, I do have work tomorrow morning, so... night!~