So, we've had four snow days in the past month. As far as I can tell you, that's a university record. To be honest, today was the only one that I felt was entirely justified, and the only one that I used productively. During the other three snow days, I did a lot of sleeping and sitting in front of my computer playing games, and not a whole lot else. Today I got up early, washed my sheets (more on that later), went to the gym, and went in to work early to make up for all the call-offs. Now I'm finishing up the rest of my laundry and considering going to Wal-Mart (but only if the snow is done because I'm not cleaning off my car just for it to get covered again).
Okay, so I mentioned above there would be more on why I had to wash my sheets. My roommate has been seeing this girl for a couple of weeks now, and last night they went out drinking together (as far as I know, neither is 21 yet). Well, the only reason I know they were drinking is because when I got back to my room after working on my geometry partner project with Lauren she was lying on his bed and he was not letting her go back to her room. That in itself, though, wasn't enough to let me know that she was completely hammered. What tipped me off, though, was the vomit. I had just curled up in bed when I heard her vomit, and felt some hit my leg. On a side note, I'm already mad about the bed situation because my roommate brought his drum set this semester and now his bed is up against the back wall, with the head of his bed right next to the foot of mine. So when she threw up, she had no where to spew but right over the side of his bed, and right onto mine. Wonderful. I was disgusted, afraid I was going to join her in throwing up, and downright pissed off. I jumped out of bed and left the room for a walk around the building so that I didn't start yelling. I came back to the room long enough to strip my sheets from my bed and grab my shower stuff. When I returned after my shower, she was crying, presumably because I embarrassed her, and the room smelled terrible. Without sheets to sleep on my bed, and not wanting to live with the smell all night, I left to sleep on the sofa in the lounge. Let me be honest, that was the worst night's sleep I've had in a very long time, and that's saying something. So this morning when I got up, the first thing I did was wash my sheets.
Otherwise, my semester has been fairly uneventful. I've been trudging through my classes, and doing well enough. Someone stole one of my text books last week, and now I have no book to read to prepare me for the midterm I have coming up on Wednesday...At least my friend Nichole has a book that I can borrow this weekend to catch up on the three chapters that I was trying to read when the book was stolen. Oh, I suppose the story is kind of important. I took the book to work with me on Saturday, since Saturdays are very slow at Manser and my supervisor lets me read when no one is in the food court. Well, when we got busy, I set the book in the cubby behind me, and about half an hour later when I went to grab it I noticed it was gone. I've heard nothing from the campus police, leading me to believe that it was stolen and not just accidentally taken. I just can't figure out why someone would steal a family life text book; it's barely worth $50 and probably not even worth that much because there's a data set that came with the book that I still have.
The only class I am happy to be in is regression analysis, though I'm not entirely sure what we are doing. I didn't get the book until the Wednesday before the one just past (2/16) due to a mix up with the postal service, and I really need to sit down and read through chapter 2 (I did get to read chapter 1 this week) so that I can figure out what we're doing in class. The symbol manipulation is really cool, though, and I've had little trouble with that. However, I don't yet know exactly why we've been manipulating the symbols. Oh well. Our first test is on Wednesday and I'm nervous. Dr. Lienhard's tests are difficult.
Well, I think that's about it. I've got five tests next week (maybe, not sure since we've had all these snow days), and then spring break starts on Friday. I'm going to head over to Meadville Friday night to hang out with Trae, then head home sometime Saturday evening and spend a week away from school. I doubt that week is going to make me feel better about finishing this semester. Oh well. I'm almost done and so ready to be.
Later,
Joshua
Friday, February 25
Saturday, February 5
Long Awaited Update
Well, I'm sure some of you care a bit about how little I've been updating recently. I am sorry for that. As I mentioned on my home page, I have been dealing with a lot lately and updating my blog and site have been the last things on my mind.
Since we last spoke, I finished my last fall semester, somehow with a 4.00. I'm excited that I kept up my grade point average when I thought for sure I had messed it up. I went home for a month, and during that month a lot happened. My Grandma died, and it was a very painful time. I wasn't (and probably still am not) entirely rational for the rest of the time I was home, and decided to do something dumb: I helped Megan get a dog. I knew it was a bad idea, but I couldn't say no, so now she's got a new puppy. I'll have photos of him up on facebook by the end of the night, and they're already up on deviantart. His name is Viggo, and he's a black lab, border collie mix, probably with some shepherd in there as well. We took him home when we were getting Dad's cat, Squeaky Z, updated on his shots. The vet we went to was taking care of him (she named him), and she was looking for a good home for him. It turns out Megan was looking for a good dog, and the rest is history. We're still training him, and Megan's neighbors probably hate us for him, but he's adorable even if he's a big pain.
I've started my final semester at Mansfield. I'm taking a ton of general education classes that I'd rather not be taking, and I dropped Electricity and Magnetism II in favor of another math class, Complex Variables. I also stopped working at Wal-Mart this semester in favor of Manser and tutoring so that I can stop stressing so much. It's been helpful so far, but now I don't have the constant pressure to do my homework, and thus have been procrastinating a lot.
Over the break I put in applications to the University of Pittsburgh and Binghamton University for graduate school. I'm hoping to hear back from them sometime this month. I'm really hoping the I'll get in at Pitt because I want to be closer to home.
I finally updated my site (for the most part). Technolock no longer exists, and I had links to that site on every page, so I had to go through and remove them all. I also added new pictures, so check it out.
I've been pretty bad lately with my extra cash. For Christmas I bought me and Megan a new 42" LED Vizio HDTV, as well as a Vizio Blu-Ray player to go along with it. I have also been buying a lot of books, and so my online bookshelf is not up-to-date. I have to go through and figure out which books aren't on the page yet, and add them all. It might take some time because I'm not sure that I brought all the new books with me. Also, for Christmas I got a gift card to Amazon.com, and instead of using it for books or music, I bought a Zune HD (Microsoft's version of the ipod touch). I am very excited about it because it's much larger than my last mp3 player (16GB compared to 4GB), and it has a few exciting new features. The Zune comes with software, a lot like an ipod, that lets me download new music from Zune's site. The really interesting thing about the Zune (which I don't think the ipod does), is a feature called the Zune Pass. It's a monthly subscription that allows me to download as many songs as I want each month to sample, and I get to keep ten of them every month. It also has a few other features, including channels, which pick new music for me based on what I listen to and add that music to my Zune for the month so I can hear new stuff. The best feature of the Zune Pass has been the "Smart DJ" option. It works on the Zune itself, and even better on the computer. The Smart DJ will take a song or artist and create a playlist of similar music automatically. On the Zune it can only use the music I own, but on the computer it can use all of the music available through the Zune site, which is another way I hear new music constantly. All in all, I'm really excited, and I've been snatching a lot of new music, which is why my music library page on my site is not up-to-date. I'll work on fixing that, too, as soon as I get my actual music library in order.
Well, I've included all I can think of for now. I'll try and update again as soon as something interesting happens (maybe next week?).
Later,
Joshua
Since we last spoke, I finished my last fall semester, somehow with a 4.00. I'm excited that I kept up my grade point average when I thought for sure I had messed it up. I went home for a month, and during that month a lot happened. My Grandma died, and it was a very painful time. I wasn't (and probably still am not) entirely rational for the rest of the time I was home, and decided to do something dumb: I helped Megan get a dog. I knew it was a bad idea, but I couldn't say no, so now she's got a new puppy. I'll have photos of him up on facebook by the end of the night, and they're already up on deviantart. His name is Viggo, and he's a black lab, border collie mix, probably with some shepherd in there as well. We took him home when we were getting Dad's cat, Squeaky Z, updated on his shots. The vet we went to was taking care of him (she named him), and she was looking for a good home for him. It turns out Megan was looking for a good dog, and the rest is history. We're still training him, and Megan's neighbors probably hate us for him, but he's adorable even if he's a big pain.
I've started my final semester at Mansfield. I'm taking a ton of general education classes that I'd rather not be taking, and I dropped Electricity and Magnetism II in favor of another math class, Complex Variables. I also stopped working at Wal-Mart this semester in favor of Manser and tutoring so that I can stop stressing so much. It's been helpful so far, but now I don't have the constant pressure to do my homework, and thus have been procrastinating a lot.
Over the break I put in applications to the University of Pittsburgh and Binghamton University for graduate school. I'm hoping to hear back from them sometime this month. I'm really hoping the I'll get in at Pitt because I want to be closer to home.
I finally updated my site (for the most part). Technolock no longer exists, and I had links to that site on every page, so I had to go through and remove them all. I also added new pictures, so check it out.
I've been pretty bad lately with my extra cash. For Christmas I bought me and Megan a new 42" LED Vizio HDTV, as well as a Vizio Blu-Ray player to go along with it. I have also been buying a lot of books, and so my online bookshelf is not up-to-date. I have to go through and figure out which books aren't on the page yet, and add them all. It might take some time because I'm not sure that I brought all the new books with me. Also, for Christmas I got a gift card to Amazon.com, and instead of using it for books or music, I bought a Zune HD (Microsoft's version of the ipod touch). I am very excited about it because it's much larger than my last mp3 player (16GB compared to 4GB), and it has a few exciting new features. The Zune comes with software, a lot like an ipod, that lets me download new music from Zune's site. The really interesting thing about the Zune (which I don't think the ipod does), is a feature called the Zune Pass. It's a monthly subscription that allows me to download as many songs as I want each month to sample, and I get to keep ten of them every month. It also has a few other features, including channels, which pick new music for me based on what I listen to and add that music to my Zune for the month so I can hear new stuff. The best feature of the Zune Pass has been the "Smart DJ" option. It works on the Zune itself, and even better on the computer. The Smart DJ will take a song or artist and create a playlist of similar music automatically. On the Zune it can only use the music I own, but on the computer it can use all of the music available through the Zune site, which is another way I hear new music constantly. All in all, I'm really excited, and I've been snatching a lot of new music, which is why my music library page on my site is not up-to-date. I'll work on fixing that, too, as soon as I get my actual music library in order.
Well, I've included all I can think of for now. I'll try and update again as soon as something interesting happens (maybe next week?).
Later,
Joshua
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