Okay you guys, I'm seriously disappointed in the poll I've been running. AdSense is that thing that Google runs that matches ads up to various words on the page...or whatever. I think. Basically it puts ads on the page, and every time you click one it gives me money.
Now on to other things.
Dear Internet, you really need to stop being so addictive. I don't want to keep going on Wikipedia/StumbleUpon (is that how you spell it? I don't really know)/any other website that will keep throwing up random things for me to click on. I DON'T NEED TO KNOW THIS MUCH. Or this little, because really, where am I going to use all the stuff I learn from Wikipedia? Or how am I going to remember it?
On a related note, my teachers need to give me more to do. I've had one paper, one quiz, and two Programming Assignments so far...and that's it. Oh, and one thing for Health and Wellness, but that doesn't really count because it took all of two minutes. I need like a harder class or more assignments in the class or something, basically all I do now is play Donkey Kong 64, go to ultimate frisbee practice, blog, go to UREC, and hang out with people on the hall. The internet surfing happens later at night when everyone's asleep and I have nothing to do. That's a basic day for me. I swear I'm going crazy just sitting here wondering whether I should do laundry now or go eat dinner. I think I'll go eat dinner.
At least I'll have stuff to do this weekend; there are always parties to go to on Thursdays and Fridays, and this weekend is family weekend at JMU so my parents are coming to visit (and buy me snacks! because I'm a poor college student!). I would go out and party on Saturday, but I learned my lesson two weeks ago. See, I work the morning shift (10 am-3pm), so I have to wake up abominably early (vocab usage, yes!), which means I probably shouldn't go out and party the night before.
So, off to dinner and then perhaps some Mario Kart..or maybe my teacher has posted the second part of the Programming Assignment and I'll knock that off in 15 minutes and then play Mario Kart!
p.s. Leave a comment!
p.p.s. AdSense guys...you know what it is now. I put that answer on there as a joke. Granted, it's kind of funny that all the votes are there....but NOW YOU KNOW. YOU HAVE BEEN EDUCATED.
p.p.p.s. I wish the blogs I followed would update....my friend Jake hasn't done a second post yet and Allie Brosh (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com) hasn't written one for two weeks.....I MISS THE FUNNY.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
THE WALMART OF DOOM
So again, I forgot to post yesterday. But I have a perfectly good reason (and no, it's not that I couldn't get internet). I went to Walmart.
Now, some of you may be thinking, "Who cares? It's just Walmart. It's not that big a deal."
Well, that is where you are WRONG!
See, the Walmart near JMU is a mega-ultra-supersize Walmart...none of these pansy little Walmarts found all over the country. If you were to ask me what it has, a better question would be what DOESN'T it have. I've seen things from bikes to car parts to guns to an entire grocery store to an entire section of beauty products to a games/electronics section to full-size furniture....so yeah, it's more of what it doesn't have would be the question. Probably slave labor. But I bet if I asked one of the employees, they'd look sketchily around and then take me to the back where they have people chained to the wall. Probably not, but....you never know.
So yeah, I was going to write a post on my short break (my classes ended yesterday at 12, ultimate frisbee practice started at 4) but then I decided to go to Walmart and get a haircut. Oh yeah, they have a full-size salon too. And apparently they didn't do too bad of a job - I've gotten positive feedback so far about it, so I think I'll be keeping my hair short from now on. Then I was going to post after I finished work at 10, but then my RA wanted to go to Walmart again so I went and bought cooking stuff.
So the end result of yesterday was that I have a new haircut, fajita stuff, eggs and bacon, and no blog post. I'm sorry. Blame it on Walmart.
UPDATE: I cooked the bacon...it was delicious. I'm kind of worried about the kitchen though - it's not very well ventilated, so if something gets close to burning it might set the fire alarm off. Also, I like not having long hair...but my head is much colder now.
Now, some of you may be thinking, "Who cares? It's just Walmart. It's not that big a deal."
Well, that is where you are WRONG!
See, the Walmart near JMU is a mega-ultra-supersize Walmart...none of these pansy little Walmarts found all over the country. If you were to ask me what it has, a better question would be what DOESN'T it have. I've seen things from bikes to car parts to guns to an entire grocery store to an entire section of beauty products to a games/electronics section to full-size furniture....so yeah, it's more of what it doesn't have would be the question. Probably slave labor. But I bet if I asked one of the employees, they'd look sketchily around and then take me to the back where they have people chained to the wall. Probably not, but....you never know.
So yeah, I was going to write a post on my short break (my classes ended yesterday at 12, ultimate frisbee practice started at 4) but then I decided to go to Walmart and get a haircut. Oh yeah, they have a full-size salon too. And apparently they didn't do too bad of a job - I've gotten positive feedback so far about it, so I think I'll be keeping my hair short from now on. Then I was going to post after I finished work at 10, but then my RA wanted to go to Walmart again so I went and bought cooking stuff.
So the end result of yesterday was that I have a new haircut, fajita stuff, eggs and bacon, and no blog post. I'm sorry. Blame it on Walmart.
UPDATE: I cooked the bacon...it was delicious. I'm kind of worried about the kitchen though - it's not very well ventilated, so if something gets close to burning it might set the fire alarm off. Also, I like not having long hair...but my head is much colder now.
Monday, September 27, 2010
THE BLOG LIVES ON!
I've done it! Posting for the fifth time is something that most bloggers don't do...they merely start one and then after three or four posts give it up. BUT I WILL PERSEVERE! (yes, that required uppercase. imagine Mel Gibson in Braveheart yelling those words and you'll get a sense of what inner me is feeling right now.)
On to other things!
So I wrote and turned in my first college paper today, which I'm very proud of. Admittedly, I probably shouldn't be too proud of the topic that I wrote it on: an Ethical Reasoning paper on why it's unethical to feed starving people. It was difficult at first to find points to write on, but I finally figured some out and then emailed it off and just like that it was done.
See, the reason I'm so proud of this is that I absolutely suck at writing papers. I took AP Language/Composition in 11th grade, and hated all the papers I had to write because the topics were so confusing and whenever I'd think of something that seemed like a good point for my paper, I'd start writing and then realize I had just written in a counterargument to my point. The teacher also dressed like she was 16 (she was around 30) which gave the class a whole 'nother sketchy edge that I didn't really like. I also took AP English in 10th grade and absolutely hated my teacher. I once wrote a paper for him and he gave it a 5/9 (in AP scoring, that's about an 80) because he didn't like the topic it was written on. Just the topic. Nothing else.
Maybe I just hate English because of the teachers I had. But then that's just blaming it on other people. But I don't really care. It was my teachers.
In other school-related news, I'm now majoring in Computer Science as well as Theater. I'm not taking any theater classes this semester, but I am taking a computer science class that is strikingly easy for me (I took the AP exam in 11th grade and got a 5, which should have placed me out). I'm actually trying to figure out the assignments for the next two weeks so I can get them done, but she hasn't posted them yet. Ah well. I guess I'll just go to sleep. No point in staying awake.
p.s. Leave a comment!
p.p.s. Procrastination is bad!.....sometimes.
p.p.p.s. THREE POSTSCRIPTS?!
(by the way I won't keep adding more postscripts as posts go on, I'm just really excited right now)
On to other things!
So I wrote and turned in my first college paper today, which I'm very proud of. Admittedly, I probably shouldn't be too proud of the topic that I wrote it on: an Ethical Reasoning paper on why it's unethical to feed starving people. It was difficult at first to find points to write on, but I finally figured some out and then emailed it off and just like that it was done.
See, the reason I'm so proud of this is that I absolutely suck at writing papers. I took AP Language/Composition in 11th grade, and hated all the papers I had to write because the topics were so confusing and whenever I'd think of something that seemed like a good point for my paper, I'd start writing and then realize I had just written in a counterargument to my point. The teacher also dressed like she was 16 (she was around 30) which gave the class a whole 'nother sketchy edge that I didn't really like. I also took AP English in 10th grade and absolutely hated my teacher. I once wrote a paper for him and he gave it a 5/9 (in AP scoring, that's about an 80) because he didn't like the topic it was written on. Just the topic. Nothing else.
Maybe I just hate English because of the teachers I had. But then that's just blaming it on other people. But I don't really care. It was my teachers.
In other school-related news, I'm now majoring in Computer Science as well as Theater. I'm not taking any theater classes this semester, but I am taking a computer science class that is strikingly easy for me (I took the AP exam in 11th grade and got a 5, which should have placed me out). I'm actually trying to figure out the assignments for the next two weeks so I can get them done, but she hasn't posted them yet. Ah well. I guess I'll just go to sleep. No point in staying awake.
p.s. Leave a comment!
p.p.s. Procrastination is bad!.....sometimes.
p.p.p.s. THREE POSTSCRIPTS?!
(by the way I won't keep adding more postscripts as posts go on, I'm just really excited right now)
Sunday, September 26, 2010
ER visit/other minor things
So, last night I had my first college visit to the ER!
Don't be alarmed people, I didn't get sick/alcoholically poisoned/spiked drink/whatever, I went there to help out a friend of Amy's who had done something (still not sure what) and ended up in the ER.
Y'all.....the ER is scary. It's a scary place. There are people just sitting around in the waiting room and I wasn't quite sure whether they were injured or waiting for someone, so either way I didn't want to stare at them because if they were injured, they'd be all, "Why is that kid staring at me? OMG he must know that I got wounded/drank too much/hurt myself in some significant way!" And if they weren't injured, they'd be wondering why a kid was staring at them in the ER. (By the way, I have a slight tendency to overthink things. Just in case anyone was wondering.) Also, back where we couldn't see was all of the emergency rooms, and I nearly went crazy just thinking about what some of the people had done to get in there. Every few minutes someone would come on the intercom and say something like, "Nurse assistance needed in room 52" or something and I would think, "Oh god! Someone's dying! I've never been in a room/near a dead person before!"
I wound up just sitting in a chair contemplating for a few minutes until we all left at 11:30 because the friend was fine but needed to stay for a few hours. Someone stayed with her, and the rest of us went back home.
And the friend's fine, she's at home now, she was released at like 1:30 am so everything's still good.
My visit to UVA has been stellar! Catching up with old friends, making a few new ones, renewing all the inside jokes I had with the old friends....life is pretty good right about now. Except for the fact that I have to write a 2-page paper on Ethical Reasoning, but that's alright. I can write ethical arguments like a pro.
Few minor things - AdSense is a thing that Google sponsors that puts relevant ads to my blog up on the sidebar, and every time you click one it earns me a little cash! But it's also ads invading your private space. HOWEVER - I will not EVER write a paid review of anything. I'll write reviews of stuff if I feel like it, but nobody will ever pay me to do it. Unless it's a bet. In which case I'll say so beforehand.
- College is going well so far, this paper coming up is the first major thing I've had to do. First semester hasn't been too hard for me, but I feel like second semester is going to kick me in the ass just to make up for how easy first semester is. Bah.
- The post times are 3 hours behind, so if I reference a time in one of my posts and you check the post time and are all, "WTF?" just know that.
- Uh....comment if there's anything you want me to write about! If not, I'll just continue on my merry way making random posts about things that happen to me. I might post a few stories from when I was younger.
p.s. My first postscript!
p.p.s. That postscript had no reason for being there other than I wanted to make one.
Don't be alarmed people, I didn't get sick/alcoholically poisoned/spiked drink/whatever, I went there to help out a friend of Amy's who had done something (still not sure what) and ended up in the ER.
Y'all.....the ER is scary. It's a scary place. There are people just sitting around in the waiting room and I wasn't quite sure whether they were injured or waiting for someone, so either way I didn't want to stare at them because if they were injured, they'd be all, "Why is that kid staring at me? OMG he must know that I got wounded/drank too much/hurt myself in some significant way!" And if they weren't injured, they'd be wondering why a kid was staring at them in the ER. (By the way, I have a slight tendency to overthink things. Just in case anyone was wondering.) Also, back where we couldn't see was all of the emergency rooms, and I nearly went crazy just thinking about what some of the people had done to get in there. Every few minutes someone would come on the intercom and say something like, "Nurse assistance needed in room 52" or something and I would think, "Oh god! Someone's dying! I've never been in a room/near a dead person before!"
I wound up just sitting in a chair contemplating for a few minutes until we all left at 11:30 because the friend was fine but needed to stay for a few hours. Someone stayed with her, and the rest of us went back home.
And the friend's fine, she's at home now, she was released at like 1:30 am so everything's still good.
My visit to UVA has been stellar! Catching up with old friends, making a few new ones, renewing all the inside jokes I had with the old friends....life is pretty good right about now. Except for the fact that I have to write a 2-page paper on Ethical Reasoning, but that's alright. I can write ethical arguments like a pro.
Few minor things - AdSense is a thing that Google sponsors that puts relevant ads to my blog up on the sidebar, and every time you click one it earns me a little cash! But it's also ads invading your private space. HOWEVER - I will not EVER write a paid review of anything. I'll write reviews of stuff if I feel like it, but nobody will ever pay me to do it. Unless it's a bet. In which case I'll say so beforehand.
- College is going well so far, this paper coming up is the first major thing I've had to do. First semester hasn't been too hard for me, but I feel like second semester is going to kick me in the ass just to make up for how easy first semester is. Bah.
- The post times are 3 hours behind, so if I reference a time in one of my posts and you check the post time and are all, "WTF?" just know that.
- Uh....comment if there's anything you want me to write about! If not, I'll just continue on my merry way making random posts about things that happen to me. I might post a few stories from when I was younger.
p.s. My first postscript!
p.p.s. That postscript had no reason for being there other than I wanted to make one.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
And now for something completely different.
So....I apologize for not posting yesterday, but I had a confusing chain of events that led to me not posting anything:
9:55 am: Wake up, realize I have class in 15 minutes.
10:00 am: Brush teeth, run out the door for class.
10:07 am: Run into class, realize I look like a fool, calmly walk to my seat.
11:00 am: Think about buying lunch, realize I'm not too hungry, go back to the dorm.
11:15 am: Work on 2-page paper for Ethical Reasoning.
1:30 pm: Realize I want a crepe, go to Festival dining hall, get a crepe, eat with much pleasure.
2:00 pm: Take out the overflowing trash cans in my room, trip down the stairs, spend a few minutes putting all the trash back into the cans.
2:15 pm: Leave for the bus station so I can see my friend Amy at UVA.
3:00 pm: Bus leaves JMU, I'm still struggling with a pair of headphones that I bought. They were in that type of plastic casing that never comes apart no matter how hard you pull, so I bruised/gashed a few fingers.
4:00 pm: Arrive at UVA 30 minutes earlier than I was supposed to; luckily John (Amy's boyfriend) is there, so we go back to their dorm.
4:30 pm: Meet Amy, much rejoicing, realize I can't get internet because I need a UVA logon, realize nobody can give me their UVA logon because it's specific to their computer, decide that I can wait on posting.
Rest of night: Play foosball, play Apples to Apples, pass out in Amy's roommate's bed at 3 am.
So yeah....this is why I didn't have a post yesterday. But this long one today makes up for it! It's like buy 1 get 1 free!...or something. I can't really do analogies.
In related news, I'm at UVA this weekend hanging out with friends! I showed them the blog hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com (which by the way inspired me to start this blog) and John loved it.
And so that's that! I will definitely keep up with my posting now that I know I can get internet. The internet at UVA is wireless...so JMU needs to learn from this. Just saying. The ethernet cables get really annoying.
9:55 am: Wake up, realize I have class in 15 minutes.
10:00 am: Brush teeth, run out the door for class.
10:07 am: Run into class, realize I look like a fool, calmly walk to my seat.
11:00 am: Think about buying lunch, realize I'm not too hungry, go back to the dorm.
11:15 am: Work on 2-page paper for Ethical Reasoning.
1:30 pm: Realize I want a crepe, go to Festival dining hall, get a crepe, eat with much pleasure.
2:00 pm: Take out the overflowing trash cans in my room, trip down the stairs, spend a few minutes putting all the trash back into the cans.
2:15 pm: Leave for the bus station so I can see my friend Amy at UVA.
3:00 pm: Bus leaves JMU, I'm still struggling with a pair of headphones that I bought. They were in that type of plastic casing that never comes apart no matter how hard you pull, so I bruised/gashed a few fingers.
4:00 pm: Arrive at UVA 30 minutes earlier than I was supposed to; luckily John (Amy's boyfriend) is there, so we go back to their dorm.
4:30 pm: Meet Amy, much rejoicing, realize I can't get internet because I need a UVA logon, realize nobody can give me their UVA logon because it's specific to their computer, decide that I can wait on posting.
Rest of night: Play foosball, play Apples to Apples, pass out in Amy's roommate's bed at 3 am.
So yeah....this is why I didn't have a post yesterday. But this long one today makes up for it! It's like buy 1 get 1 free!...or something. I can't really do analogies.
In related news, I'm at UVA this weekend hanging out with friends! I showed them the blog hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com (which by the way inspired me to start this blog) and John loved it.
And so that's that! I will definitely keep up with my posting now that I know I can get internet. The internet at UVA is wireless...so JMU needs to learn from this. Just saying. The ethernet cables get really annoying.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
It's technically Thursday....right?
Figured I'd stick to one post a day. But hey, it's Thursday, right? 40 minutes in, but what the heck.
I was falling asleep and felt the need to blog about something. I kinda feel like I'm unappreciated at times - like everyone is glad to see others that they haven't seen in a while but nobody's ever glad to see me because I'm always around. Unless, y'know, someone needs me for something. Or I'm doing something for them. Like baking. I like baking. (oh god, the grammar police are going to be all over this) But yeah, I just wish sometimes that I'd get those excited responses when people see me. But I guess I should have expected this when I went out and met like everybody in the freaking building within a week of moving in. Ah well. That was kind of fun though, meeting everyone.
So, bah. Sadness/seriousness over.
Ultimate frisbee today killed the back of my right leg. The muscles keep twitching like my leg is going to have a seizure or something...which is kinda scary, and keeps me awake as I'm trying to sleep. So, leg, if you could stop doing that, that would be great. Also, this nickname thing - not working out for me. See, everyone on ultimate gets a nickname, and mine is currently "E-Hall". IT'S WHERE I FREAKING WORK PEOPLE, NOT THAT AMAZING. It's the only way the frisbee guys remembered/knew me, so that became my nickname. Needs to stop being my nickname.
I also think I need to switch to a different dining plan. I'm getting 14 punches a week (a punch is like a meal + a drink for all you non-JMU'ers) and so far I've only used 4 this week. Normally the schedule is 2 a day...which means I've only eaten 2 DAYS WORTH OF FOOD OH GOD. I need to eat more. But my desk is covered in snacks...and if I convince myself I need to eat more, next time I visit Walmart I'll buy more snacks...and not eat them.....I need to just stop spending time in my dorm room. That's it.
I am quite aware that this post rambles, that tends to happen to me as I'm going to sleep/sleeping/it's late at night and my brain just wants to stream-of-consciousness rather than form coherent thoughts.
I can't think of anything else to say, and I'm tired now, so goodnight!
I was falling asleep and felt the need to blog about something. I kinda feel like I'm unappreciated at times - like everyone is glad to see others that they haven't seen in a while but nobody's ever glad to see me because I'm always around. Unless, y'know, someone needs me for something. Or I'm doing something for them. Like baking. I like baking. (oh god, the grammar police are going to be all over this) But yeah, I just wish sometimes that I'd get those excited responses when people see me. But I guess I should have expected this when I went out and met like everybody in the freaking building within a week of moving in. Ah well. That was kind of fun though, meeting everyone.
So, bah. Sadness/seriousness over.
Ultimate frisbee today killed the back of my right leg. The muscles keep twitching like my leg is going to have a seizure or something...which is kinda scary, and keeps me awake as I'm trying to sleep. So, leg, if you could stop doing that, that would be great. Also, this nickname thing - not working out for me. See, everyone on ultimate gets a nickname, and mine is currently "E-Hall". IT'S WHERE I FREAKING WORK PEOPLE, NOT THAT AMAZING. It's the only way the frisbee guys remembered/knew me, so that became my nickname. Needs to stop being my nickname.
I also think I need to switch to a different dining plan. I'm getting 14 punches a week (a punch is like a meal + a drink for all you non-JMU'ers) and so far I've only used 4 this week. Normally the schedule is 2 a day...which means I've only eaten 2 DAYS WORTH OF FOOD OH GOD. I need to eat more. But my desk is covered in snacks...and if I convince myself I need to eat more, next time I visit Walmart I'll buy more snacks...and not eat them.....I need to just stop spending time in my dorm room. That's it.
I am quite aware that this post rambles, that tends to happen to me as I'm going to sleep/sleeping/it's late at night and my brain just wants to stream-of-consciousness rather than form coherent thoughts.
I can't think of anything else to say, and I'm tired now, so goodnight!
My first post!
So guess what....I spent an entire day thinking of titles for my blog! Then I found out that the website didn't have to be the same as the title. Oh well.
I also couldn't really think of anything witty to market myself as. Maybe I'll figure that out later. However, I did have an idea for my first blog post. But I'm watching Family Guy while I do this, so I randomly type words that I hear on the show. So if something doesn't make sense that I type.....I apologize.
So anyway...
Walking. I hate walking.
Does this ever happen to you? I'm walking along, and notice that I'm walking funny, or I think it looks weird, or I think it looks unattractive to people behind me, and so I start walking really stiff. Then I notice that I'm walking stiff, so I start loosening up. Then I'm just stuck in a cycle of walking stiff and walking loose until I finally start powerwalking and stop caring about how I look. Or I reach where I'm going.
I also wonder sometimes what it would be like if I narrated my own life. Like Twitter. What would that be like? "I'm at the grocery store. Now I'm picking up fruit!" "It's 2 am. I think I'll go to Walmart." "I am not drunk. It's just really late, so I'm tired."
I wonder who'll read this. Maybe nobody. Maybe a lot of people! That would be exciting. Except I think I need to spice up the posts a bit. I don't have anything exciting about myself (I don't have ADHD, I don't draw funny pictures - at least not yet, I can sort of write poetry but not really). I guess I'll just shoot for funny. Leave a comment!
I also couldn't really think of anything witty to market myself as. Maybe I'll figure that out later. However, I did have an idea for my first blog post. But I'm watching Family Guy while I do this, so I randomly type words that I hear on the show. So if something doesn't make sense that I type.....I apologize.
So anyway...
Walking. I hate walking.
Does this ever happen to you? I'm walking along, and notice that I'm walking funny, or I think it looks weird, or I think it looks unattractive to people behind me, and so I start walking really stiff. Then I notice that I'm walking stiff, so I start loosening up. Then I'm just stuck in a cycle of walking stiff and walking loose until I finally start powerwalking and stop caring about how I look. Or I reach where I'm going.
I also wonder sometimes what it would be like if I narrated my own life. Like Twitter. What would that be like? "I'm at the grocery store. Now I'm picking up fruit!" "It's 2 am. I think I'll go to Walmart." "I am not drunk. It's just really late, so I'm tired."
I wonder who'll read this. Maybe nobody. Maybe a lot of people! That would be exciting. Except I think I need to spice up the posts a bit. I don't have anything exciting about myself (I don't have ADHD, I don't draw funny pictures - at least not yet, I can sort of write poetry but not really). I guess I'll just shoot for funny. Leave a comment!
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