Last week, I interviewed and successfully obtained summer employment at an amusement park outside of the Twin Cities. I’ll start in May. The pay isn’t great, but it is full time (40-50 a week). I didn’t take the job for the money.  More important to me is that it will give me 3 to 4 months to live in the MSP metropolitan area where I can look for ( Read more... )

Well, I'm now where I'll be for the majority of the year.  It's been an odd two weeks, and I'm still adjusting to this new situation.  I left Wisconsin exactly a week ago today.  Half of the trip was vaguely familiar, as I had made the same trek earlier last summer.  It a lot of ways, a lot of this reminds me of last summer.  We got a larger rental ( Read more... )

Ugh, it's so damn hot!  I definitely like my colder climes better than this.  Everyday this week has been in the 90s, often pushing over 100 when the heat index is considered.  It's more than my small room AC can handle, though I shudder to think how miserable I'd be without it.   Occasionally I see what the weather is in Wisconsin right now, and I ( Read more... )

    Well, crunch time is now over, for me at least.  I still have one thing left to do yet, but I have until next Friday to do it.  What's more it's based on a paper that I've already finished, but more on that later.  Overall though, I found this semester too be easier then last semester.  When I was in crunch time last semester, I was way ( Read more... )

So it's about a fortnight from the end of the semester for me, which means it's time for the end of the semester crunch.  Got three major projects that I have to finish up, two of which are due the day after the other.  It would be all three, but I found out last week that I'll have an extra week to work on that project, so woo!  Still, really busy ( Read more... )

Well, I got about three different things to talk about this week. So rather than struggling to create a coherent introduction relevant to all three, I'll just get on with it ( Read more... )

Well, to continue things were I left off last time, nope, I didn't finish Final Fantasy XIII.  I'm still on the second disc, at the end of chapter 9, but I haven't touched the game in about a week.  Why? ( Pokemon happened, that's what. )