Category: Daily Life

-er, never mind.

I left the room a mess today, and spent forever at work. When I got back, I found that someone has moved into my room… so I guess I get a roommate! It’s cool, I was going to turn into a hermit otherwise.

I can’t find my phone. It’s on vibrate. It’s either within 10 feet of me somewhere in my room, in the computer lab, or left on a tray in the cafeteria. I’m not too worried about it, but for the next couple of days, it’d be best if you e-mail or IM me if you need to get a hold of me.

No roomie?

So my assigned new roommate canceled, he won’t be moving in. I might get the room to myself this semester. We’ll see.

If I do, I think I’m gonna make a bonfire out of my clothes and never wear them again.

So I moved back into the dorm… It’s deserted still. But I have work and errands and stuff. Meh.

Missed the plane…

That was the longest frickin’ checkin line I have ever seen. I checked in 5 minutes after my plane took off- so I’m on the next one, six hours later! Whee for six hours in Phoenix Sky Harbor! [/sarcasm]

Luckily this airport has free wi-fi…. Denver International may be like, the best airport ever, but they charge for their intarwebs. Shame on them.

So I’m just sitting here watching DVD’s… Surfing… Eating multiple meals at elevated prices… blar.

I hate days where you do nothing but travel.

Telecommuting

So one of the nice things about my job at CSU is that I have the option to work over all the breaks. For this break, I’m not taking any time off- even though I’m in Arizona. Things are set up well enough that I can telecommute for my entire time here.

Which means that I will be spending 20 hours a week at Gold Bar. And after all, you know how much I hate Gold Bar. I spent 5 or 6 hours there today, and ran into a fair amount of old friends. It was nice seeing the old faces… I have some good friends at CSU now, but all of my tight base that really cares for me deeply still lives here. So it’s nice being somewhere where people share a concern for you again.
That said, I’m wondering if I should have taken a reduction in my hours- I’m not sure if I want to be there for ten four-hour shifts. I might get sick of the place 😛

But I like Gold Bar. It’s cozy. So if any of you Arizona peeps want to catch up, drop me a line, IM, or e-mail, and we can make it happen.

Byaaah!

(…hey, it’s not Blar. Even though it’s already been done.)

I go to Arizona tomorrow. Er, today.

My sleep schedule has been shot all week. It’s really weird, like something keeps me from sleeping before 2 AM!
And I miss most, if not all, of the morning because of it. Byaaah.

Christmas came early, at least from the Colorado fam, and the bounty included Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. With all of their corny quirks and overacting to boot. 19 hours of TNG for my geeky pleasure.
Matter of fact, forget this blog. I’m gonna go watch another episode.
(Maybe that’s why I’m getting to bed at 2 AM….)

Happy Christmas

I’ve been going out with some friends on my floor recently, just having fun. We’ve also done some Christmas shopping…

Everything up here is so beautiful. Night comes early and the whole town is lit up. Our hall is absolutely covered in Christmas lights. It’s all so cozy, and I don’t have finals, so I’m on a bit of a mini-vacation at the moment. It makes me really look forward to coming down to Arizona and seeing friends and family. It’ll be the first time that I’ve “come home for Christmas,” since I usually leave for Christmas.

So I’m loving it. Merry Christmas!

A very Merry christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear

(War is over, if you want it…)

 

Slumber party!

It’s the weekend. I have no finals until Wednesday or Thursday, so I’m getting an extra-extended weekend. I like it.

The whole week of finals, starting last Friday, is 24-hour quiet hours in the dorms, so it’s been extra quiet around here. So I’m a little bored. But it isn’t so bad… Last night nine people on my floor carried our mattresses out in the floor and had a slumber party.

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So I have some time to burn, and a bit of studying to do. I’m not too worried about finals, but I don’t know any of my grades at this point.

Pretty much done with my first semester here, and I’m happy with it. CSU was a good fit for me.

I can’t wait to see everyone in Arizona. I miss you guys!

A few more thoughts.

So, the coffee on CSU campus has always sucked. I generally steer clear of any coffeeshop that serves Allegro coffee, but for some reason, CSU Allegro is really… nutty.
When I was going to MHS, Gold Bar was really the perfect spot: good local coffee right between me and class. Now there’s nothing acceptable between me and school, so I’ve been going without (and avoiding the highly productive study sessions that coffeeshops yield for me).

But Rockwell Hall (the business college) just opened up its own coffee cart, which I’ve been saying they needed to do all semester.
And they don’t use the same old crap. It’s some local coffee brand. And it’s really good (or at least the first cup was).
This is the building where most of my classes will be.
This is the building where I work.
This is a very good thing.

[warning: meaningless nerdiness ahead. feel free to skip.]
I’ve been running Windows Vista again… the OS itself is stable, but right now the third-party drivers really suck. As in, I get the Blue Screen of Death on a wired ethernet connection, and if I want to use the wireless at CSU, I have to track down some beta software that works about 70% of the time. I got really frustrated with it again today, and booted back into Ubuntu Linux…
I swear. Ubuntu is like a breath of fresh air. It takes up a THIRD of the RAM that Vista does, boots twice as fast, and is way more stable. It helps that it’s fairly barebones, and you just add the components that you need. I guess computers are like cars: XP is the sedan that everyone drives- it works well for everyday tasks, breaks down once in a while, and is a good day-to-day vehicle. It’s not good for big demands, and forget cramming a lot of people in it.
Ubuntu is a Jeep. It’s light, versatile, and you can add or subtract parts to your fitting.
Vista is a blinged-out Escalade with chrome spinners. And horrible resource usage. And yes, it’s ridin’ dirty.

Sorry.

But seriously…. this thing has CRAZY resource usage. In Ubuntu today, I was able to convert a gigabyte of FLAC files to MP3. That’s a decode operation followed by an encode one. It only took 12 minutes.
And this is with really good SMP support built into the kernel, so it was chugging along, devoting the whole task to one core at 90% usage, while the other one happily processed my other tasks at the same time: playing MP3s, running about 4 tabs in Firefox, chatting in Gaim, and some more stuff, too. No noticeable speed impact whatsoever.
Oh, and did I mention that this whole time, I had over 60% of my RAM free? This thing is a beast when I get it away from Windows.
[/nerd rant]

I’m girl-crazy again. It sucks. I think I’d rather be single. Relationships get so lame when they get so crazy. Damn hormones.

I’ve listened to nothing but The Beatles for the last two days. It rocks. I have the complete collection now – every Beatles song officially released. In MP3 form, it weighs in at just under a gigabyte, so the money-wasting side of me is tempted to buy an iPod shuffle just for Beatles tunes.
(I won’t do that. I’m not that crazy.)
I’m realizing that in order of frequency, when it comes to Beatles songs, my favorites are most often written by George. Then Paul. I’m kind of wearing out on John- he gets annoying when he’s whiny (although there are many, many, many exceptions).

I really wish I could take a couple of weeks off and do nothing but drum on a good acoustic kit, as if it were practice for a profession. I desperately need people to jam with. Canned music is getting very, very old.