96 posts tagged “school”

I'm officially a mover and shaker again this year, which means I'll be moving back to Central on the 18th.

We stayed at Bob's when we were at PAX.  So... here's Bob.

Pat's been here.  He left for the Oregon Coast, though, so I have time to make a blog post.  It's been a pretty gay ol' time, though, only in the classic sense of the word.  D&D, Brawl, movies, WoW, all the good things in life.

Since my last post I've watched Shoot Em Up and Tropic Thunder.  The former is what would happen if a talented 12 year old kid wrote a script for an action movie, then grew up to be a director and made the script adult without taking any of the stuff from the action scenes out.  Totally ridiculous actionyness, totally ridiculous plot, totally ridiculous dialog, basically one of the best movies ever.  I wouldn't recommend it for people not in the male 16-30 demographic, though.  Tropic Thunder was very funny, kinda along the same vein as Shoot Em Up but more planned comedy and less pure ridiculous actionyness.  (fire alarms go off, apparently spontaneously)  They do swear a lot, but frankly, if you are so uptight you can't handle swearing, you probably should just give up on comedy and joy in general.

In other news, my roommates next year are new.  I originally was gonna have Donny and Yusuke, but then Donny chickened out and graduated, and then Yusuke's paperwork got all messed up, so who knows where he'll be, and now I got stranger asians (strasians) for roommates.  Maybe I'll get the single this time.  Poor Yusuke is stuck holding a bunch of my stuff and he doesn't even get to use it next year.  (fire alarms go off, apparently spontaeously)

Yeah, so the D&D referred to in the first paragraph is only the planning, character making, and general chatting phase of D&D.  No actual playing has taken place.  We, in this case, my friends from disparate places, are trying to get an online game going.  If I had all 6 of us in one town we'd probably get going in about 1 night, but online is slower.  Still, progress has been steady, and at this juncture I think we're all good to go.  We just need everyone to be around at a computer at the same time.  Unfortunately, Pat is gone so likely that won't happen for a bit.

I'm a halfling rogue.  Pretty classic.  I've done quite a bit of thinking about the character, though, so in my mind he's specific enough to not just be a stereotype.  Wrote up a couple pages of backstory.  I also created a wicked sweet spreadsheet with all the stats and stuff.  I'm pretty proud.  I keep adding stuff to it.  I can't help myself.

Work keeps happening.  I'm just been plugging away at the website.  We've got to present it in a couple weeks, I guess.  My partner intern, the guy doing the database, was the only one informed of this.  Nobody in charge really talks to me.  I kinda am an independant at this point.  Progress on the site is a little jumpy.  The whole thing was planned not at all because neither of us actually building the thing ever have all the information.  We keep getting it in trickles, so we keep having to improvise and slap new stuff on.  And at this stage, the site is sufficiently complex that changes almost always cause bugs somewhere.  I'm not stressed about the presentation, though.  I've definately done enough work to impress, and I'll probably have everything working smooth before the day in question.  I might even have time to try and make the site look pretty.  That is the one concern.  I have spent almost no time on CSS, and I am not skilled in that regard, so if the people judging me aren't impressed with features and functionality, and only want color schemes and rounded corners, I might be in trouble.  I'm pretty sure the engineering firm I'm working for will be ok with my approach, though.

So, Pat will return in a week for a few days.  And then he's going back to Vegas.  I suppose that would be a really bad week to take off.   Stupid work.  It's conspiring against me.

So where should I apply to grad school?

Ok.  So I've not done much blogging lately.  Not really sure why, guess I've just been distracted with other stuff.  Quick run down of the goings ons.

1.  Years over.  I probably got a 4.0 this quarter, or something close to it.
2.  I'm back in Kennewick for the summer.  I have an internship starting Monday that's going to make my summer a lot like school, only worse, however.  I get paid, though.  About .48 cents per second, so I guess I gotta look at the bright side.
3.  My grandma died.

Guess that's the major events in my life.  Sharese is moving back to town on the 16th... which is exciting.  Potentially, anyway.  She might decide not to associate with me and mine, in which case it's pretty boring.  Linda, girl from middle school, joined the military and is going to basic in a few days apparently.  So... that's big for her.  *shrug*  Pat's missing, but he took some big actuary test on Tuesday.  Haven't heard anything since, so maybe it killed him.  Ody and Keston and Mike and all those kids graduated.  Ody has an internship job thing.  Donny walks today.  Or walked.  I dunno.

D&D starts Tuesday.  3.5 Eberron stuff.  Hopefully my 4.0 books get here soon and I can start working on running a 4.0 campaign. 

I could have tried to chat with Katie Engbretson on Facebook but I didn't.

(I also finished the last homework assignments I have this year, excluding final test and final papers... but don't let this added detail detract from the intended vagueness = meaningful vibe I was going for on this)

I got a summer internship.  I get to write javascript to make 3D models do cool things.  So... that's cool.

Also, the power went out on campus today.  At like 7:40.  I was in the lab working on the group project with most of the group and everything went lifeless.  A CS building with no power is a sad thing.  Some of us went for a walk after we realized the magic juice wasn't coming back right away.  It was pretty nuts.  Everyone was hanging outside cause the weather was nice.  Had to eat Taco Bell cause the cafeteria closed down.

Tomorrow I register for next quarter's classes, and I have to find out about getting credit for this internship, and I have to fill out the employment paperwork... and I have a group project midway done presentation... sigh.

I pre-ordered D&D 4.0.  It's released the day of my final final.  It's fate.  Now I have a job so it totally justifies the expense.

That Central softball story I've mentioned twice before was featured on the Colbert Report.

I saw Iron Man.  One of those movies where big screen is actually of benefit.  I think it was good.  I like superheros, though.

Got a 91 on that test on Friday in databases.  High was 93, average 70, so that's pretty good.  I think I did decently on the test today, too.  The one I was planning on doing poorly on.  We'll see how tough he grades, though.  Lots of subjective wiggle room.

The prof for half of my classes and about 90% of my work is sick, so all the assignments due today are actually due Wednesday.  I'm already done, though.  I mean, I could work on pretty, but I already did.  Once I resign myself to completion I tend to stay that way.  Momentum type force.

RedOctane is doing free shipping for mother's day.  Do you want DDR or guitar hero, mom?

I received my second unsolicited, totally self inspired, compliment on my facial hair from a female peer today.  The first one was Mikaela and I suspect she's physiologically compelled to please me, so I dunno if that counts, but I did give her an out and she didn't take it, and I didn't ask what she thought or anything.  And this new person could easily have said nothing since I wasn't even talking to her but she volunteered her positive feelings on my facial fiasco.

Reminder of what we're dealing with.

Also, hard day of work again today. I'll leave you with some JoCo.

This year there have been two "Grill your RAs".  The premise is that we lowly residents get to know our mighty RAs, and the RAs humanize themselves by subjecting themselves to our questions.  Theoretically, they'll answer any question.

So this goes down as you'd expect.  People don't want to ask questions because they'd be announcing to the hall their perverted interests, and some people don't want to make the RAs squirm, but they squirm anyway if nobody asks questions.  So this causes a mixture of totally easy questions to make the event seem like it's moving, "How old are you?  What's your favorite ice cream?" and the "edgy" questions from those in the group already considered perverts, "What's the last time you smoked pot?  Have you ever made a porno?"

These questions are fielded by the RAs in long winded anecdotes for the most part, because they are RAs, and, therefore, by nature, verbose.  They're also predictably average and boring.

I've gone to both of these events (free food), one of them last night.  I was bored out of my skull and so while I was trying to sleep last night I thought of some questions I should have asked.  So I'm going to try to remember some of them now and record them for next time.

Questions to ask your RAs:

1. Would you have sex with me? (don't clarify, force them to interpret)
   
2. If you could ask us 1 question and we had to answer, what would you ask?
3. Have you ever fantasized about raping someone, or being raped?
4. Do you occasionally enjoy your bowl movements?
5. Who's death, of those currently alive, would benefit the world the most?
6. Should laws prohibiting sex with animals be removed if it can be shown the animals like it?
7. If you heard god talking to you, would you check yourself into a mental hospital?
8. What percentage of the population do you think are dumber than you?
9. If you were slowly dieing and a stranger was watching, but not moving to help, what would your last thoughts be?
10. What's the one question you hope most won't be asked?
11. If a technology existed that would alter your brain to make you more likable, would you utilize it?
12. If all American's disappeared tomorrow, who would miss you?
13. Do you care that your answers to my questions make me think less of you?

That's probably enough for now.  I welcome suggested additions.