can it be summer yet?
oh, don't get me wrong - i'm LOVING this cool and sunny weather and there's no way I want it to get any hotter. but...i'm done with the semester. i'm in my second-to-last week and i have NO motivation to do much of anything. i honestly do not know how professors expect their students to concentrate when they've got final projects/papers and are staring summer vacation straight in the face. i think this is the first semester i've felt like this. despite the fact that this semester has FLOWN by, i'm just not really into the classes i'm taking. i'm hoping that my classes next semester will be more engaging. anyway, i've got a group project due on the 7th. well, the written/essay portion of the assignment is due that day, but the presentation portion is happening on the 9th. i'm doing my best to catch up with the wiki we're building (yes, a wiki!) and creating the pages that i offered to write. one of the women in my group is, i think, doing WAY too much with her pages. i mean, this is a wiki and we're building this as a PROTOTYPE wiki. she's like listing everything imaginable on her page. we need to show potential and, if we were to get new users, give them an opportunity to jump in and add what they feel would be beneficial for the other users. if you give them everything, it just would be better as a straight-up information website. anyway, i'm sticking with what i offered to do and that's pretty much it. i finished one page and i plan on finishing a second page tomorrow and, if i feel like it, a third page on wednesday. of course, this is just for one class and i'm not even paying attention to the regular weekly stuff we need to be doing at this point. seriously? you're giving us ANOTHER exercise to do the second-to-last week of the semester? when you haven't even finished grading the past FOUR exercises, our rather large essay from 3 weeks ago, and countless blog entries? *sigh* anyway, i'm not worried about this class. my other class, though... i have my final project, a research proposal, due on the 8th. i'm devoting all next week to writing that thing and doing any lingering research needed to flush out the proposal. i'm pissed that i got a 0.5 point off on my last assignment, which is totally screwing up what could've been 100% going into the final assignment. yeah, i know, i'm bitching about a 0.5 point, but still! i just want to keep up this string of A's i've been getting the last few semesters and an A in grad school is a matter of 3 percentage points. by 6pm on may 9th, i'm going to be the happiest camper on the face of the earth! :)
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my cousin's memorial service is happening saturday afternoon. this meant i had to bow out of going to my friend's bachelorette party. it's okay, though. my cousin was well liked/loved at google and his managers offered to have the memorial on the google campus. they basically told my uncle and my cousin's fiancé (who also works at google) that they'd organize everything. someone set up a memory page on facebook and there are over 600 group members, which is just astounding. i'm really curious if they're all going to be there. my mom told me that she honestly thinks that if i didn't go, i wouldn't be missed, but that just doesn't feel right to me. i'm also really frustrated with how this how thing has been handled. i know that this was something NO ONE was expecting or even thinking about. i have nothing against the large memorial, but at least do some kind of private family internment or something that's just family. *sigh* i mean, i'm saying all of this, but if it was my husband (god forbid), i probably would be just as disorganized and befuddled. however, one thing i WOULDN'T do would be to only announce the memorial details on facebook when neither of my parents (my cousin's aunt and uncle) are on facebook. my uncle (my cousin's dad) wasn't even on facebook until this group was created. i sympathize with my mom when said last night that it felt very "exclusive". i dunno.
i do know that i miss him. at least when i close my eyes, it feels like he's hugging me. :)
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i've been spending the last day and a half looking for icons. i really wanted an animated naruto icon with him eating ramen, but apparently that's very difficult to find. i was sifting through pages and pages of anime fan pages looking for icons. i found a couple which i liked. last week i found a few animated gifs on senor gif and wanted to make those into icons. i tried and failed. :P i also spent the majority of today surfing for disney icons (say hello to my bermuda merlin icon!). i didn't realize they upped the number of icons i get with my paid account, so i was totally lacking. this should show you how slow it's been at work...
i also started reading full metal alchemist manga, since i'm all caught up with the naruto manga. i think i need to give it a little more time. right now i'm not as interested in it as i was with naruto.
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man, i can't wait until i'm done with school. portal 2 and mortal kombat - here i come!! oh yeah, in addition to mass effect, american mcgee's alice and naruto: ninja storm 2. bring on the mountain dew!
maybe i could rig up something where i could play video games (on the ps3) while on my bike trainer. that way i'm not a total fat-ass. :P
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my cousin's memorial service is happening saturday afternoon. this meant i had to bow out of going to my friend's bachelorette party. it's okay, though. my cousin was well liked/loved at google and his managers offered to have the memorial on the google campus. they basically told my uncle and my cousin's fiancé (who also works at google) that they'd organize everything. someone set up a memory page on facebook and there are over 600 group members, which is just astounding. i'm really curious if they're all going to be there. my mom told me that she honestly thinks that if i didn't go, i wouldn't be missed, but that just doesn't feel right to me. i'm also really frustrated with how this how thing has been handled. i know that this was something NO ONE was expecting or even thinking about. i have nothing against the large memorial, but at least do some kind of private family internment or something that's just family. *sigh* i mean, i'm saying all of this, but if it was my husband (god forbid), i probably would be just as disorganized and befuddled. however, one thing i WOULDN'T do would be to only announce the memorial details on facebook when neither of my parents (my cousin's aunt and uncle) are on facebook. my uncle (my cousin's dad) wasn't even on facebook until this group was created. i sympathize with my mom when said last night that it felt very "exclusive". i dunno.
i do know that i miss him. at least when i close my eyes, it feels like he's hugging me. :)
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i've been spending the last day and a half looking for icons. i really wanted an animated naruto icon with him eating ramen, but apparently that's very difficult to find. i was sifting through pages and pages of anime fan pages looking for icons. i found a couple which i liked. last week i found a few animated gifs on senor gif and wanted to make those into icons. i tried and failed. :P i also spent the majority of today surfing for disney icons (say hello to my bermuda merlin icon!). i didn't realize they upped the number of icons i get with my paid account, so i was totally lacking. this should show you how slow it's been at work...
i also started reading full metal alchemist manga, since i'm all caught up with the naruto manga. i think i need to give it a little more time. right now i'm not as interested in it as i was with naruto.
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man, i can't wait until i'm done with school. portal 2 and mortal kombat - here i come!! oh yeah, in addition to mass effect, american mcgee's alice and naruto: ninja storm 2. bring on the mountain dew!
maybe i could rig up something where i could play video games (on the ps3) while on my bike trainer. that way i'm not a total fat-ass. :P