I still have this?!?!
Wow...does anyone still read these things?! Sherrie's been active it seems.
Well...after 3 years I'm making a post in this blasted thing. I definitely have to say I'm surprised at the way I spoke 3 years ago and am GREATLY relieved my speech has evolved from simple grammatical errors and that I gained the ability to stay on one subject long enough to articulate clearly and professionally. It seems there is where my college dollars went. :-p
So, 3 years in 30 minutes...
Lets see, I no longer attend CSUF. I have returned from Fresno to live back in Bakersfield to hopefully save up some money. It seems as if my destiny is tied to this God-forsaken soup bowl of a city. Over the years I've added another major, I can say I'm an even bigger nerd then before while I show of my Computer Science prowess. With the addition of my new major college should take another 2 years for me.
My hobbies still include gaming, I'm the proud owned of a 2008 Nintendo Wii and 2007 Nintendo DS with my astonishing 15 game collection for it, not including the Virtual Console/Wii Ware games I've downloaded from it. It doesn't matter the amount of games I own for the system, most of my gaming time includes Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii in which I'm a competitive pro player of the Central California Area. Yes I go to tournaments but have yet to see any REAL money. With traveling expenses the profit I'm seeing is no more then $100.
I am still a musician, though I have dropped the Composition aspect temporarily since I have deemed it the least important of my hobbies. Though I've dropped composition, I DO have a published work in it titled Last Hope. Last Hope, is a Flute Choir piece invoking many "new-age" ideas of music, while maintaining a sense of "nostalgia" evident in the Medieval influences of the piece. Its gotten lots of acclaim but I've yet to make anything of its stature since then.
My flute playing is not as competitive as it once was. The most I can admit to is making principle in a few of the ensembles and traveling across the state. I was given the opportunity to go to China, but I'm not one to leave the State, let alone the Country. Its difficult to remain on the competitive scene with the flute if you're concentrating on education. Firstly, the requirement of learning other instruments of the different families really ruins your embochure, let alone your ability to read when you have to do Sight-Transposition! Imagine viewing a C and having to finger an F.
I still do web programming, though I haven't really had any purpose for it recently.
I'm still a natural mathematician who reads math books for pleasure. It is quite a transition when Math no longer involves numbers but words.
One hobby I've been taking a lot of interest into that I didn't in high school is Dungeons & Dragons. All my life I was raised on the ideology that it was "Satan's Game," without questioning it I went on with my life. After being exposed to a few PC games that were based off of the 3.5 edition rules of D&D I quickly realized that my precontrived misconception was in all truthfulness, blatantly wrong! I know belong to 3 groups that play on Saturday 12-5, Sunday 4-11, and Tuesday 5-12. I am in charge of the group on Saturday, and alternate the Game Master responsibility on Tuesday. I have ran campaigns including many home-brewed items, as well pre-made campaigns such as "Keep on the Shadowfell." My hopes are to finish my own campaign that I have been working on these past few months titled, "Orcus and the Great Fall: Chapter 1 - The Shadowfell Prophecies." Seeing as how there is hardly any money in the business unless you publish the work yourself, I have arranged for my self-published campaign to be available for sell throughout the county (as well as online) October 1st of this year for $30 due to all the material that comes with the campaign.
My love life definitely has changed. The "perfect" high school relationship ended some time Late 2005. Since then single has been the key word. However, Early 2007, I met a Music/Math Major who also plays the Flute. We hit it off really well seeing as how we have so much in common. Christian, calm, reserved, the fact that I'm SURE she won't change sexuality in the middle of our relationship (haha), our personalities match very well, despite the fact that she almost reciprocates myself in almost every way. Since New Years, we've been engaged. I don't know whats up with me and commitment, I guess I just enjoy "security." Her parents and sister love me, though her 16 year old brother doesn't think we will last, my dad won't think of it as a real relationship unless she is Hispanic, my mom seems to think that making a commitment is too dangerous, and my sister thinks she is "boring," and "clingy." Doesn't seem like pleasing everyone is an option this time around. One question this relationship brings up, what is up with my natural affinity with white women who weigh more then me?
My family hasn't changed despite the years. The never-ending confrontations between, "Myself vs Sister." "Myself vs Father," "Sister vs Mother," "Sister vs Father," and "Mother vs Father" makes it seem as if I've never left home! It doesn't seem as if this family will acquire any sense of peace in the near future. This household is always filled with such hate fueled from petty arguments! Unless I'm making money, my father views anything I'm doing as a waste of time, my sister since the beginning of time has always loathed me, which is especially apparent when she leaves a history of messages cursing every breath that I or anyone else in my family takes to everyone she comes into contact with, and my father still hasn't learned respect for my mother. Isn't this disillusioned rage supposed to evolve into some heightened sense of euphoria after puberty?! Ugh, this family will never know peace. In the interest of maintaining my sanity, goals have been set to find my own place come next semester.
My current goals still include finishing college without borrowing TOO much money from the government, maintaining a nurturing relationship with my fiance though we are currently over 200 miles away, and to successfully sell my first published campaign. I guess my life isn't as "boring" as my disillusioned sybling thinks it is!
Well...after 3 years I'm making a post in this blasted thing. I definitely have to say I'm surprised at the way I spoke 3 years ago and am GREATLY relieved my speech has evolved from simple grammatical errors and that I gained the ability to stay on one subject long enough to articulate clearly and professionally. It seems there is where my college dollars went. :-p
So, 3 years in 30 minutes...
Lets see, I no longer attend CSUF. I have returned from Fresno to live back in Bakersfield to hopefully save up some money. It seems as if my destiny is tied to this God-forsaken soup bowl of a city. Over the years I've added another major, I can say I'm an even bigger nerd then before while I show of my Computer Science prowess. With the addition of my new major college should take another 2 years for me.
My hobbies still include gaming, I'm the proud owned of a 2008 Nintendo Wii and 2007 Nintendo DS with my astonishing 15 game collection for it, not including the Virtual Console/Wii Ware games I've downloaded from it. It doesn't matter the amount of games I own for the system, most of my gaming time includes Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii in which I'm a competitive pro player of the Central California Area. Yes I go to tournaments but have yet to see any REAL money. With traveling expenses the profit I'm seeing is no more then $100.
I am still a musician, though I have dropped the Composition aspect temporarily since I have deemed it the least important of my hobbies. Though I've dropped composition, I DO have a published work in it titled Last Hope. Last Hope, is a Flute Choir piece invoking many "new-age" ideas of music, while maintaining a sense of "nostalgia" evident in the Medieval influences of the piece. Its gotten lots of acclaim but I've yet to make anything of its stature since then.
My flute playing is not as competitive as it once was. The most I can admit to is making principle in a few of the ensembles and traveling across the state. I was given the opportunity to go to China, but I'm not one to leave the State, let alone the Country. Its difficult to remain on the competitive scene with the flute if you're concentrating on education. Firstly, the requirement of learning other instruments of the different families really ruins your embochure, let alone your ability to read when you have to do Sight-Transposition! Imagine viewing a C and having to finger an F.
I still do web programming, though I haven't really had any purpose for it recently.
I'm still a natural mathematician who reads math books for pleasure. It is quite a transition when Math no longer involves numbers but words.
One hobby I've been taking a lot of interest into that I didn't in high school is Dungeons & Dragons. All my life I was raised on the ideology that it was "Satan's Game," without questioning it I went on with my life. After being exposed to a few PC games that were based off of the 3.5 edition rules of D&D I quickly realized that my precontrived misconception was in all truthfulness, blatantly wrong! I know belong to 3 groups that play on Saturday 12-5, Sunday 4-11, and Tuesday 5-12. I am in charge of the group on Saturday, and alternate the Game Master responsibility on Tuesday. I have ran campaigns including many home-brewed items, as well pre-made campaigns such as "Keep on the Shadowfell." My hopes are to finish my own campaign that I have been working on these past few months titled, "Orcus and the Great Fall: Chapter 1 - The Shadowfell Prophecies." Seeing as how there is hardly any money in the business unless you publish the work yourself, I have arranged for my self-published campaign to be available for sell throughout the county (as well as online) October 1st of this year for $30 due to all the material that comes with the campaign.
My love life definitely has changed. The "perfect" high school relationship ended some time Late 2005. Since then single has been the key word. However, Early 2007, I met a Music/Math Major who also plays the Flute. We hit it off really well seeing as how we have so much in common. Christian, calm, reserved, the fact that I'm SURE she won't change sexuality in the middle of our relationship (haha), our personalities match very well, despite the fact that she almost reciprocates myself in almost every way. Since New Years, we've been engaged. I don't know whats up with me and commitment, I guess I just enjoy "security." Her parents and sister love me, though her 16 year old brother doesn't think we will last, my dad won't think of it as a real relationship unless she is Hispanic, my mom seems to think that making a commitment is too dangerous, and my sister thinks she is "boring," and "clingy." Doesn't seem like pleasing everyone is an option this time around. One question this relationship brings up, what is up with my natural affinity with white women who weigh more then me?
My family hasn't changed despite the years. The never-ending confrontations between, "Myself vs Sister." "Myself vs Father," "Sister vs Mother," "Sister vs Father," and "Mother vs Father" makes it seem as if I've never left home! It doesn't seem as if this family will acquire any sense of peace in the near future. This household is always filled with such hate fueled from petty arguments! Unless I'm making money, my father views anything I'm doing as a waste of time, my sister since the beginning of time has always loathed me, which is especially apparent when she leaves a history of messages cursing every breath that I or anyone else in my family takes to everyone she comes into contact with, and my father still hasn't learned respect for my mother. Isn't this disillusioned rage supposed to evolve into some heightened sense of euphoria after puberty?! Ugh, this family will never know peace. In the interest of maintaining my sanity, goals have been set to find my own place come next semester.
My current goals still include finishing college without borrowing TOO much money from the government, maintaining a nurturing relationship with my fiance though we are currently over 200 miles away, and to successfully sell my first published campaign. I guess my life isn't as "boring" as my disillusioned sybling thinks it is!