sugardeath

11:57

My logs indicate that my test script takes just under ten minutes to run. Can we talk about a time waster / nap inducer?

I handed in my resignation today.. Yay? Oh well, just two weeks left now! Based on this week they actually shouldn’t be too bad. I guesS I could do this full time thing if I really had to.

Ahaha, my script was just going while I was going. Get it? Because I was pooping.

For some reason this day seems to be going by a LOT faster. It’s already freaking noon. I’ve thought about what would make the day seem longer or shorter and I came to an odd conclusion: If I don’t skip songs on my Zune, the day should feel shorter. What? Well, when I was listening to Leo Laporte’s podcasts, the day flew by. Earlier this week, however, I didn’t have that luxury and was listening to straight music. I would often skip past 80% of the songs, and the days dragged. Later in the week, though, I began to just listen to whatever came on and the days got shorter. I mean, each song is like three or four minutes on average, right? Most don’t feel like they’re that long, and thus you (me) think they’re over before they ought to be. It makes sense, ish. Trust me.

What I find to be too short, though, is my commute to work.. While going from the 35th/IIT/Bronzeville stop to Roosevelt takes up like half the trip, it’s only four stops up the green line and therefore is not really that far away. I don’t know, I like the idea of being able to get a decent length nap in on the train. But I also like the idea that if I wake up an hour late, I can only be fifteen to thirty minutes late to work.

12:11

You know it’s bad when you music starts to affect your falling asleep dreams as you wait for your test to finish. Though the one for Lostprohpet’s Last Summer was pretty cool. Usually I don’t pay attention to lyrics but when I’m half asleep and I start seeing things based on the song? Sure, why not.

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One of the reasons I need to get over to Windows for the Zune software is so that I could update the auto playlist with the songs I’ve hearted on my Zune but not in the software. Should bump my favorites playlist from like 578 to maybe 600?

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OK, let’s time myself: 12:18, going to get lunch. 12:19 to be safe. And back at 12:25. Not quite the three minutes i thought it was, but still.

12:53

Something I wrote a week or two ago when first starting playing with AutoTester: You know the day goes by fast when your log files tell you it’s time to leave.

You know how most people are happy when they can bring their belt in and tighten it due to weight loss or whatever? Well these past fews days I’ve had to loosen my belt and it is a gooood feeling, let me tell you.

13:59

Why so many outline abortions lately, script? You were working so well just a while ago… Sometimes it’s all I can do to just stay awake..

I’m not sure how I am getting home today. I have fifty cents on my fare card and a buck fifty on Casey’s (too bad I can’t use both together, eh?). I coulda sworn I had $2.50 on mine instead of just $.50… Hopefully the State/Lake red stop (a block north of the green stop) has an ATM or even a credit card fare charger. No, wait. I already figured this out. I was gonna hit up the 7-11 across from work and use the ATM there before I head home. Durr.

Ugh.. Testing a test.. yay..

No matter what music I listen to it finds a way to put me to sleep…

14:43

Yet I keep listening.

Oh man, ugh. Two hours and fifteen minutes. The day is flying, but still… I can’t believe there’s still so much time left… I am falling asleep so hard here.

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Let’s see if I can type until three something to pass the time.

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So I guess she gettin’ skeeted on never skeeted in
guess she’s gettin’ skeeted on.. never skeeted in..

Typing definitely helps keep me conscious. And it’s…

15:01

I did it. Now to keep going. Manjot kinda scribbled her initials in mspaint. Purple. Must be as bored as me. She’s been using AutoTester to play around with Access Plus Windows whereas I’ve been playing with Access Plus Web. Either way, I doubt either of our scripts will be too useful in the end.. I wonder if I’m going to get any more Work Requests in the next two weeks…

I wish I didn’t have to blink, closing my eyes, even for a blink, is enough to draw me into sleepytown…

No, it’s more like ZIP ZOP ZOOBITY BOP.

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I wonder who does that voice at the end of Thriller? It reminds me of Christopher Walkin for some reason?

I really hope this school year is good. Socially, scholastically, monetarily.. etc. I really hope I grow up and learn some responsibility.. But that’s up to me, I guess…

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15:25

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15:39

Look at this day go. I bet I was actually asleep for most of it.

OH FINALLY DARRELL THANK YOU FOR UPLADOING THOSE FILES. Now I have like… ten minutes of work in testing these two work requests in production and then sending out the request for approval emails…

Done.

Bored again.

15:44

It’s time to d-d-d-d-d-dddddduel!

16:06

Yep, did my first test in a while and almost fell asleep again… The test is up to eleven minutes now.. I don’t recall adding anything..

16:15

That’s one WR down.. Approve the other one, April, so I can knock them both off today! ..wait, she approved the one I sent.. SECOND? What about the first one?

Unsolved Mysteries theme

16:48

Wow, it took thirteen minutes this time? I do recall hearing Kelly say that linux-ts was slowing down throughout the day, but still. Well, almost time to get out of here..

I have ~2 weeks to do my project. I have ~2 weeks to do three assignments. I am spending three or four hours nearly every night for the next two weeks with a bunch of Taiwanese kids. I have a project for SOC that’s due in a few days. But that one should be easy.

The project and all related materials are 55% of my grade. The three assignments total 45% of my grade. I guess two assignments and the project for a possible max of 85% will be decent time management as well as cutting my losses or something?

Kids, always do your work on time. Especially in a summer semester where it is far, far too easy to get left behind.

Actually, make that a week. A single week to do two assignments and the project. This is fucking balls.

(To self: You’re doing it wrong)

I started work last Thursday and have just been kinda sitting and watching one of two of my three coworkers that knows what their doing (the third started a week before I did). It’s really boring, but got slightly better today when I was given some work to do. It’s nice to be able to do things. I need to bring a bigger lunch and caffeine. I honestly think that, save for parking, driving to form work would be cheaper than taking the El. It’s $2 there, $2 back. That’s $12 a week. I could partially fill my tank up for $20 and it would last me more than a month. The place is only about ten to fifteen minutes driving from campus. It’s straight up State Street. Fifteen minutes driving is.. what, two miles at most? This is a wild guess here, but I’d put my mileage at about 20 to 25 miles per gallon. Sure the lights along he way will hurt that, but still. Twenty bucks would be almost five gallons, more or less (heavy on the less). That could definitely last me a month or more of just straight driving to/from work. Definitely cheaper than public transportation (unless my tired brain is doing something wrong here).

The commercials for the new Dragonball Z game that involve a bunch of random, ordinary people yelling “KAMEHAMEHA” while doing whatever they do amuses me greatly.

Yeah, I definitely think I might be coming down with the oral death again. Kind of makes sense, though. New environment at work. Keyboard and mouse (especially the keyboard) are dirty and probably germy as fuck. Last time it was.. two weeks? after Nicole and I started going out. Introduction of someone else’s germy germs into my system would be a good reason for these assholes in my throat to try to kill me. (I believe the tonsils are related to the immune system in some way) The first time I got tonsilitis? I don’t recall anything that could have introduced foreign contagions into my body at the time. If this goes real, becomes legit (damn you Joy!), that’ll be three bouts of tonsillitis within six months. That’s pretty terrible. Fuck you tonsils.

Ugh… I don’t really feel like writing up a ton of stuff about the past two and a half weeks of class. Basically: Prof K. is as terrible as ever. Can hardly follow his own code. Reads directly from the API without expanding upon it. The Prof for Science and Belief is pretty damn awesome. She is in about her sixties, I’d say, has some sort of European accent (maybe?), and can be pretty damn funny. I think most of her funny is unintentional, but that only makes it better. She let one of the girls in class bring in an episode of South Park (that related really well to the material we were talking about, actually) without prescreening it. Today we’re watching Contact. It’s a really nice class, I enjoy it.

You can find some really pretty girls on the El platforms/trains (I don’t usually look around while walking, but sitting on/waiting for the train is boring so I like to take in my surroundings; it’s also fun to look in windows as the train whooshes past apartment buildings). It’s a shame that American society is so closed that just trying to strike up a harmless conversation would be seen as weird and creepy. How did people meet each other in the past?

Swallowing is… fun…

KAMEHAMEHA-cough cough cough cough cough cough

Despite my previous post lamenting my lack of social interaction with former work buddies, I do enjoy it in the city. I love riding the train between the tall buildings. I love walking through the crowds, becoming just another face in the crowd. It’s very awesome. I don’t see how people wouldn’t want to live here. There’s… so much to do, so much going on. It’s awesome.

I got a 43 on the Discrete Math exam I took last Friday. I got a C in the class (wow those grades were fast). I was excited when I saw that C.

The Software Engineering exam was on Monday. The professor did not post the lecture slides from practically every lecture since the midterm, so there was very little I had to go on other than the final exam preparation powerpoint (he posted that but not the lecture slides?) that gave me chapters in the book that I had to read. That’s a lot of reading for Sunday night, so I went online to the book publisher’s website and found the study guides and copy/pasted what I thought would be important into a document, 8pt fonted it, slapped some diagrams from the project benchmarks on the last page, and printed out my six-page cheat sheet. There were a few things on the test that I remember skimming over on the study guide, but did not paste into my cheat sheet, that I wish I had pasted into my cheat sheet. But the cheat sheet came in very handy for quite a few questions, so I’m glad I grabbed what I could online. I answered all of them the best I could and I feel pretty good about this one.

I just finished the precalc final… I do not feel great at all. Yes, I put off studing until the last minute and therefore got practically no studying done. For a good portion of the test I could not remember how to integrate at all. It finally came back to me, however, and I was able to finish a few more problems and try my hand at a couple of others. Based on the questions I answered (fully and partially), the max amount of points I can get is little more than 60, 60 being the lower boundary of a C. 55 is the lower boundary of a D. If a question was worth 4 points and I answered part of it, I only gave myself one or two points, just as the professor would. I… I don’t feel good about this one. Not in the least. This was easily the most important one too. It is the class with the highest credit hours. It is the last Calculus class I will have to take (assuming I don’t fail it, that is). I need a good grade on this. A good grade is not what I will be getting, though.

My COM exam is due by 4:30PM tonight by 8:00PM. … What? Here is the opening paragraph to my COM final:

Choose two of the three questions below. Answer all three for extra credit. Suggested execution: Read the question carefully. Plan your answer, outline your response, write response with support from the text. In order to get credit for the third question, the response will need to be as well organized and coherent as your other responses. Your exam must be in my e-mail and in digital drop box by 4:30 PM next Wednesday, May 14 by 8 PM. [emphasis mine]

Exact same format as the midterm, so based on how well I did on the midterm (91 or 92, can’t remember) and how I tackled the midterm (I read the chapters the night before and the morning of, and then wrote the midterm during the class it was due), I should be fine on this exam.

The Psych exam is Friday morning at eight. If I read the slides throughout the day Thursday, I should be fairly well off. I read the slides for a day or two prior to the make-up for the second midterm and I felt great about that one (I don’t think I ever did receive the grade for that midterm), so preparing as such should result similarly.

I get out of the Psych exam at ten, Corey and Phil get out of their CS351 exam at 12:30. From there we’re (Stephanie too, probably) going to go to lunch at either Red Lobster or Olive Garden or something (he has a $50 gift card that works at both) as a sort of end of the year celebration. End of Corey and Phil’s year, anyway. I’m going to get a taste of year round school beginning this summer.

I think on Saturday after I move out of my old room and then into my new room (if that’s even the day us summer students move in/out, we have received no information as to the housing arrangements for the summer), I am going to go downtown and look around for stores or restuarants or any place really that may be hiring. Sunday is yacht day. Jeremy’s dad is taking the yacht out and Jeremy invited a few of us along for the ride. I think he said it should be able to fit the entirety of the summer swads group. (This isn’t my old roommate Jeremy, have I ever talked about this Jeremy before?) My weather toolbar applet is giving me a cool high of 63F for Sunday. On the water that shouldn’t be too bad, but it could be better. We’ll see what happens as we get closer to Sunday. A couple days ago it was giving me 61F for Sunday. It gave me a high of 65F one day but as the day went on the current temperature kept going up and up. I believe it peaked at about 79F. At one point it said Current Temp: 72F. High: 65F. (At a certain point during the day the high is no longer displayed, I haven’t figured out what time that is yet)

So yeah… I feel good about the majority of my exams, it’s just one little fucker that’s ruining the whole thing for me. One little, important fucker.

I had a pretty awesome fail-moment the other night:

Corey: For the longest time I didn’t even know Detroit was in Michigan. (or something like that?)
Tony: Didn’t you study your states and capitals in school?!
Phil (who is also from Michigan) looks at Corey, waiting for a response, doesn’t realize my idiocy.
Corey: LANSING IS THE CAPITAL OF MICHIGAN TONY.

Hot damn, better than I expected!