07.31.04
It's the weeeeekend... and I don't feel like updating. There will be plenty of time for updating later this week (as I'm OUT OF SCHOOL! WOOHOO!). Things were looking good for Anthony to steal second but My Cousin Mitchell donates another 2 DewU points, keeping him in second with 9 total, with Anthony trailing by a mere two points... it's getting down to the wire folks. It's going to be interesting to see how this thing plays out! Probably more interesting than anything else I could talk about I guess hehe. I'm out bitches!
07.28.04
He shoots, he scores! Anthony brings the DewU team point total up to 51 with a one-pointer, putting him in close competition for second place with My Cousin Mitchell! Things are really heating up around here! Oh did I mention I'm never going to get 225 points by the deadline? The new goal is unofficially for 60 points so I can get a pocketwatch... how cool would that be? For me, I mean. Well not as cool as a Live kit... but still pretty cool. Really it will belong to everyone that contributed... but you all will have to settle for keeping it in your hearts and minds because I'm totally keeping the actual thing. Woohoo!
I'm on a five (okay more like 30) minute hiatus from school shit... got my math final done just barely, now I have a piece of crap to paint. I mean a piece of art to crap. I mean my art is crap. Whatever. Almost done with this horrific marathon of educational obligation!
07.26.04
Here's another school update, which may not interest you, but don't forget this blog also serves me for record-keeping purposes. So screw you.
Got a letter from CU letting me know that until I pass a few more classes I won't be admitted into the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences... so I guess I have to settle for the College of Liberal Arts until I get some Calculus (I & II) and General Physics under my belt. Lucky me! I dunno why they split up the colleges like that... it's a confusing way of doing things. There are already like four different actual colleges on that campus, then you have all these weird little imaginary colleges that're just like divisions or departments or something. Anyways, I guess this makes me officially a pre-engineering major... how sexy is that title? Well I think it's sexy. Who asked you anyway? I mean besides me.
Anyways I have 15 and a half hours to work on my math final before it's due... then 22 hours I think after that to get my last art project done. I'll see you again in about 36-48 hours.
07.26.04
Done with my last math test... which I think I did pretty decent on. Just have to do the final... which is due Wednesday... then I'm done with College Algebra (the class anyways). This is good. 15 credits, all in my past. Then I only have 20 more math credits to do. Boy am I ever going to be awesome at math. It's going to really rue the day it ever crossed me. Or it would if math could rue. Not much else to say... it's a week of wrapping things up and worrying about final grades, followed by a blissful classless break for about 25 days. Scheduled activities for my break are as follows:
- Clean house
- Graduation party
- Buy laptop
- Get linux box up
- work
- Sleep
- Do whatever the hell I feel like
I sure can't wait.
07.25.04
Broke the 50-point mark for DewU points... thanks to Kris! Woohoo!
07.25.04
Today, July 25th, of 2004, marks a sad day in history. My poor red betta, Oren Ishii, has passed. I'm unsure of the circumstances of his death, as I woke up today and found his bowl half empty and my mom had written a note that had a sad face on it, but I'm guessing that he's either moved to a summer home, or passed away. Poor fish... he never really recovered from his bowl breaking and him being dropped on the floor (which you can read about here if you don't know the story). Mental note... don't break your fishes bowl then drop them on the floor. Poor thing. Somehow I don't even have a picture of him too, that sucks.
Not much else to say... this weekend kind of sucks. Next weekend when I'm all done with school... that will be a better weekend. Assuming no more of my fish die. Time to study more math.
07.23.04
Another productive day in Sarahland. Well... not so much "productive" as... well I did get out of bed and stuff. That's something right there. Found a DewU point under my seat in my car... that was cool. I'm making beautiful little graduation invitations... it's got me feeling like Martha Stewart... but without the orange jumpsuit.
I plan to blow off all my responsibilities today and have a nice relaxed Friday, then all weekend it's study, eat, sleep, study, sleep, study, study study. I went to my school's bookstore to see if I could find commencement announcement cards I could send out... apparently people that graduate in the summer don't matter though because they don't have them after summer. Bastards. I accidentally fell in love with a zip up hooded sweatshirt while I was there too... I'm such a sucker for a cool hooded sweatshirt. It's summer, for goodness sake, who needs that? I do... boo hoo.
Guess I'd better go and accomplish SOMETHING for the day. Like eating lunch. I'm so... so... so... very... boring.
07.22.04
Well... I'm officially planning a graduation party for myself on Saturday, August the 14th. Never graduated anything before... should be cool. There will be hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, dip, punch, a veggie plate, maybe some kind of marshmallow jello thing or potatoe salad assortment, oh and some family and friends. It will be a good time. I wanted to wear a tiara but my mother has informed me that getting a two year degree doesn't make me a princess. What does she know!
07.21.04
Oh, SNAP! No I didn't just say that. Shaun donated 11 points while I was sleeping, making him the new HeyU point leader in a rather dominating way. Niiiiice. Maybe I should start taking bets? What's a few more broken laws when you're "on a roll"? That's a gambling pun! Almost.
I have a math take-home final to work on anyways. Pout. But one of my classes is done, and I only have 2 math classes left to go to, and 2 art classes! Woohoo! Then I'm done at Front Range... get like 25 days off to do whatever I want, forget all the math I learned, earn some tax money, go to the dentist, that kind of stuff.
These days it's all about makin' that GPA. If I get a B in my math class and an A in art as I'm hoping, I'll have something like a 3.7 GPA for my stint at Front Range. That'd be awesome. This drops to the 3.5 range if I get a C in math and a B in art. I don't want that. Which is why my weekend is going to be pretty much nonexistent between studying for a math test, painting, and working on my math final. Oh yeah baby. Well, it's all working toward those 20-something days of freedom, so I'm cool with that. What to do with all that time... well I'm going to make some money for sure. What else? I think I'll do some PHP scripting to get the jamesondesigns site a little more impressive... my perl stuff is a little buggy. That's a good goal. What else? Geez I'd really like to acquire some form of laptop before I go to CU. That'd be interesting... I am going to think about that more.
07.20.04
Visit the HeyU Thanks Page to see who all has donated points and how many! They're ranked, cuz it's a contest! A contest to win something great and mysterious that I won't reveal until the contest is over and I think of what the hell it should be! Ooooh, ahhhh!
07.20.04
Oh man... got 3 DewU points today from my cousin Mitchell... and a point from Bill over at hackmultimedia.com. Thanks to the both of you! The tally reaches 34 points... now isn't that easy?! Open up your hearts and wallets people! Ooh, another just came in from Anthony! Woohoo!
07.20.04
I got accepted into CU Denver... hooray! Now it's just a matter of financial aid before I'm all aboard, wind at my back, sails flapping overhead, education ho!
My weekend, well went really fast. Cleaning gutters was pretty awesome... I have a bunch of cuts on my hand now from digging shit out manually... maybe I'm not the smartest gutter-cleaner on the block. But I am free labor for my mother... sooo. It's scarier every year... we have this crappy loose wooden shingle roof... and sometimes when you walk on a shingle, it'll break under you, and that's scary. Long way down, y'know. But I'm able as a mountain goat... what can I say (cue the clip from either the Simpsons or Family Guy with the clumsy-ass mountain goat slipping off the mountain in the background).
Well what else. I have mad shit to do, again. Need to sign up for classes at CU, maybe taking one at FRCC also as it'd be cheaper, but that may not matter if I get lots of financial aid. Have to follow up on the financial aid stuff... as it was on hold till I got accepted. I need to go to the DMV for tags and another plate... that promises to be a hoot and a holler. One way or another I'm going to make my windows box my linux box and my linux box my windows box, hardware speaking. That's not going so well. What can I say... except that... everything in my life is totally upside down at the moment. Hooray!
07.18.04
So I have this horrible dream. I wake up and get out of bed... totally done with that sleeping nonsense anyways. I go downstairs right after this dream, and my mom is looking sad. She says she made this great cherry pie cuz she's wanted one for ages, and then she accidentally dropped it face down on the floor. Coincidence? I think not. Anyway I guess I have to make a cherry pie today to replace the first. Then I get to clean out some gutters. And mix a bunch of colors of paint for art. Hoo-ah!
07.16.04
Just broke 30 for points... thanks to the adorable Kris in Littleton. Thank you Kris! My props page is growing... I now owe at my count, 6 people thanks, along with one anonymous, who will be taking credit for any points I find in gutters or trash cans or where ever. I can almost taste that Live subscription... mmm. Tastes like... umm... getting whipped online. Whoo!
I've had an interesting time this week. Let me tell you a story. Yesterday I go down to Denver right? To get a bunch of dumb stuff done for CU. Okay... so I get a parking ticket. Not for an expired meter, but for having expired tags. Oopsy doodle. Well, that's okay, I knew I'd get something eventually, no surprise there. I go back down to Denver today. It turns out when you go to buy a GED transcript that they take a day to get it in, so I had to go back to the Colorado Board of Education place. I run in, they give me a piece of paper in an envelope, I think "Gee this doesn't seem like it's worth $22", and go on my merry way, time still on the meter. I get to CU like 10 minutes later, and as I'm pulling in to park get a call from my mother. "Sarah, a gal from the Board of Education place just called, you need to go back there and get an official seal put on that GED transcript or it won't be considered valid.". Sweet.
So I go back. I park... use the same meter so I still have a bit of time... I go back to the gal and she stamps the thing for me, all apologies for neglecting to do it prior, everything's gold. And this time she's actually nice to me, whereas she was a huge bitch the other 2 times I'd been in. Guess it took her screwing up to stop being such a bitch.
Anyways, I'm walking back to my car, and lo and behold, there's some guy standing in front of it with the little ticket printer thing. Awesome. I talk to the guy, he points out the fact that my tags are expired. I tell him real nicelike I'm aware of this, as I just got a ticket about it yesterday. He asks me what I'm doing down in Denver, whether I'm "from around here", that kind of stuff. Nice guy, despite the tickets. Yes, ticketS. He's halfway through writing me another for not having a goddamn front plate on my car, but decides since he actually screwed up on the first ticket, to just give me the parking meter expired ticket to save me like $10... thanks, guy. So really I get a ticket for expired tags and an expired meter that wasn't actually expired.
Anyways he tells me to go down to this office to pay the ticket and talk to the referee who is supposed to take off like half of the fine just for going and talking to him. That's cool I guess, except I can't go do it obviously until I get new tags. Oh and like $50. He cracks this joke of course as I'm about to go that he's sorry he had to give me the tickets, and that if I would've been there a few minutes earlier he wouldn't have to give them to me but he'd already entered them into the system. Yeah that's really what I want to know... I want to know how the GED transcript chick not knowing how to do her job is going to cost me like $30.
Let's do some math anyway. Between meters, paid parking at CU, the three tickets I now have, cost of GED transcript, mileage on my car, gas, I'm thinking over the last two days I've accumulated oh, about $130 in some kind of debt, all thanks to Denver. I do not think that I was hasty in my judgment about Denver being a horrible, horrible piece of shit city. I think I did see the mayor though at the state building... so that was kind of cool. Although it sure didn't make up for his crappy city. That bastard.
Anyway... I'm a Denver n00b... this is abundantly clear. That city is just going to eat me alive... I know it. Ugh. I'm tired.
07.15.04
Two DewU points donated by the Bryan Mack... sweet! 29 of 225...
I have to run all over the place today... well yeah actually drive. To the tax guy's to pick up copies of tax stuff for CU... to some State Dept. of Education place for a copy of my GED transcript ($22, gone!) which is also for CU, then it's off to CU to just throw them a bunch of paperwork and say "Okay let me in now please." Oh boy. Then I have yet another 4 and a half hour art class... blah. We're painting now... ooooh... ahhhh. It sucks cuz we have to mix 36 colors in all to use for this thing... and we're to just keep all the colors in little film canisters and haul all this shit around for the next few weeks. I'm thinking I'd be better off staying home working on my project. We'll see. My PHP homework doesn't seem to be doing itself... hmmm. Shame! I'm out.
07.14.04
God... worst week ever, seriously. No sleep... too much worrying... too many missed deadlines... phonecalls to make... people to talk to... all this shit to do and not enough time to do it. End of semester never looked so sweet.
07.13.04
I think if I had to spend another day taking care of my mom's dogs, they wouldn't live to see it. These dogs are so horrible. They bark at everything that goes by... so eventually I ended up closing every blind in our house this morning to shut them up. Now they're just sitting down there in the dark hehe... like parakeets or something. Bad, bad dogs. Not to mention they keep wanting to be fed and let out and stuff... I mean come on. Show a little independence!
Our power went off like four times this morning while I was trying to sleep, that was cool just because I had the noisy ass attic fan running and had set it for like 6 hours, then it died, and I figured someone was coming to kill me. Then it came back on... and died... I dunno how I'm ever going to live alone if I always imagine there's someone out to kill me... talk about paranoid. I'm gonna buy a gun when I do eventually move out. That's right Sarah's potential murderers... come and get me then! Just don't rob me and take my gun... god that'd be sad. Well I'm homework bound.
07.12.04
Wow, I thought I was tired yesterday. Yesterday I got an extravagant amount of sleep compared to today. But the show must go on. I'm such a trooper. In reality I'm going to study all day for this retarded math test, forget everything when I get in the actual class and sit down in front of a test, and then I'm going to pass out for the length of the test until my teacher wakes me up, reads my name off my forehead, and fails my ass. I'm so psyched.
On an unrelated topic, thanks to my awesome cousin Mitchell for donating 4 DewU points, Mitchell is completely awesome. You too can be completely awesome by donating points to me... it's easy, it's free, and you can start today! What are you waiting for? I actually made a DewU page (HeyU due to copyright stuff I guess) with lots of lofty ideas in mind... I was thinking I'd have registration so people could log in and look at the points they've donated, then I was also going to have a system where you could buy stuff from me for points, things like carwashes, dvds, dates (that was admittedly a ripoff), and the like. However the registration system proved a challenge and frankly I don't have the time for something I already know no one would use. Oh yeah, and I really don't have anything cool I'm willing to part with, which makes the contest really crappy. So, another day perhaps. Another day, another contest. Where oh where does all my freetime go.
07.11.04
I'm tired. It's Sunday. I have only stupid shit to do today. My mommy is out of town so I have to cook for myself (ineptitude I know thee well). I guess I have to make some honest attempt at mowing the lawn. I have to learn everything I never wanted to learn about logarithms. And all I want to do is go back to bed. Hmph. I'd throw a temper tantrum about it but there's no one here to appease me, or alternately slap me upside the head and tell me to stop being such a retard.
The LAN party went off without a hitch... whatever that means. There was much carnage, and much blood was spilled... all of it mine. I love LAN parties. Huzzah!
07.08.04
Well, my weekend begins. No more classes. Another math test on Monday... so that should spoil a good percentage of my weekend. However the other percentage will be spent at my friend Jason's LAN party. It's going to be LAN-tastic. LAN-credible. UnbeLANable. Umm. LAN-tastic... oh I already said that one. Well then.
In other news... oh I guess there isn't any. LAN-TABULOUS! LAN-tacular, Spectacu-LAN. LAN-orific. Gaming WonderLANd. BoLANza! Yeah that's probably sufficient.
I have to go to the dentist tomorrow. They're going to fix some caps I have that are leaking I guess... and probably just wander around in my mouth wreaking havoc for the rest of the time I'm all numbed up. I wonder... do dentists have friends? I hope not.
07.08.04
Recent updates:
- Added a new Fish Story
- Some miscellaneous school updates
07.07.04
I'm conflicted. I missed priority financial aid application dates for CU by about 3 months, so that sucks. Like I'm going to be thinking about that stuff in APRIL, pshaw. So I'm looking at scholarships now. And I USED to think minority scholarships were bullshit, because of the reverse discrimination inherent in saying "You can't apply because you are white". But now here I am, caucasian, but a female. I've seen a fair bit of scholarships designed for chicks only, seeking some kind of technology degree. That's me alright.
So now this discrimination is working in my favor by opening up a whole new world of scholarships to me and eliminating a lot of my competition. Yeah... I'm torn. I feel bad, but not bad enough to not apply. I figure that as long as the money is there, and I need it, I have no choice. It's the system that's screwed up, not me. I guess I will have to revise my opinion of minority scholarships though if I actually get one... it'd be pretty stupid to say how lousy they are when one is putting me through college. I think the majority of sellouts throughout the world are probably just poor.
So yeah... I've been messing around with a lot of CU stuff... filling out forms and submitting applications and whatnot. Fun stuff. Fun stuff I should've done like a month ago but completely forgot about. I made a big chart of my curriculum on a sheet of posterboard with all the classes taped on it so you can move them around. Yeah that took like 5 hours... heh. Hmm. Oh yeah, then I added a listing of all the classes I'm going to be taking with detailed descriptions to my School section... there's actually some really scary shit in there. Check it out here. An excerpt:
C SC 3645-3. Discrete Linear Systems. Analysis of discrete time signals and
systems. Impulseresponse, convolution, difference equations, Fourier analysis,
z-transforms, linear time-invariant systems,sampling, computer simulation and
modeling; applications in computer science and engineering. Emphasizes both
analytical and computer-based solutions to a broad spectrum of problems. Prereq:
MATH 3195 and C SC 2142.
Hehe... What??
07.06.04
07.04.04
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra was cool at Red Rocks... I added the pictures to my gallery under the Miscellaneous > Red Rocks section. I took a few of the actual symphony that didn't turn out very well, then my batteries died on my camera right at the end of it, so. They played some good stuff, lots of fun marches and "God bless America" kind of stuff, but for some reason they cut the concert short, not doing like 5 more songs they had listed in the program. It was still cool though. They played the theme to Harry Potter... that made my day. It was like a geriatric convention though... mostly old white people listen to classical music I guess.
I also put up some other pics... more Coors Field pics of the Rockies game vs. Baltimore a Saturday or two ago. Can't think of the other updates I did... yet I've been sitting here working on updates for forever. Hmm. I got up 3 hours ago and after 8 and a half hours of sleep I'm still tired as hell... what's up with that? Maybe I'm getting old. I DO like classical music, after all. I need a nap.
I finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, great book. Yet finishing it was really sad, because the next book isn't going to be out for forever. No date even set. I hate waiting. Episode III is out in 2005, as well as the next Harry Potter movie, Goblet of Fire. What the hell am I going to do till then? Guess I'll go back and read Chamber of Secrets, haven't read that one yet. Then I guess I'll just cry myself to bed every night until 2005. Or I suppose I could just find other books to read. Or I could write some Harry Potter fan fiction... that's always horrific and embarassing to read. I don't think I'm that obsessed yet. Give it time! I have been achieving great feats in loserdom lately, so it's not like I need to hold back for fear of what it'll do to my reputation. For a few days I thought all these people were suddenly reading my webpage and leaving me these really nice guestbook entries. Then I realized it was some kind of automatic process to advertise some shitty website, they'd sign my guestbook but leave a URL to it as their webpage, I assume because of the way Google ranks sites, the more links to them the higher they rank. Those bastards were just using me! That was really sad heh.
Okay, I think I'm getting incoherrent. I put all the wrong titles on everything I talked about above there, didn't realize it till the proofread. I'm definitely going to go take a nap. Stupid sleepy worthless brain doesn't realize how much shit I have to do today. Or maybe it does.
07.03.04
Happy July 4th everyone, in case I don't post tomorrow on the actual fourth. My weekend kicked off nicely with 2 DewU points collected from a friends BBQ, and one admittedly collected from a gutter on Broadway. What can I say... I'm a bum. Oh don't act so surprised. Anyhow, still well on my way to having that Live kit. My points are growing exponentially! Unless that doesn't mean "sorta". I've got some work to do come the end of the month, so that's awesome. I can almost taste that "your taxes are paid" receipt... mmm. I conquered the world in only 7 short hours last night... started with Europe, fucked off all game, made some fluke takeovers near the end, then the world was mine. We know I can't really have any world-conquering skills due to my inability to conquer basic algebra, but with Risk, it matters not. Although not being able to add up units or see which dice rolls won in any fast amount of time is a bit crippling. Well, I'm babbling, so screw you. I have an epic search and replace script to start writing. Then it's off to the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks with my mom if it doesn't look like it's going to rain. Hooray for holiday weekends.
07.01.04
My newest invention idea: Stealth Snacks. Y'know when you go to the movies and they say you can't bring your own snacks and drinks? So you end up paying $5 for a small soda that's full of ice from some poor minimum wage slob that can't make his car payment, and $5 for a tiny little bag of popcorn? This after you just blew $8 on the movie ticket to see a movie that might very well blow. Well, movie theaters suck, screw them.
This new line of products will be created with stealth consumption in mind for just that kind of situation - drinks that come in a pouch that can be flattened and stuck in a pocket, or strapped to your leg. Opening them will be a snap and your position will not be compromised, as they'll come equipped with silencing mechanisms. Hate those candy wrappers that rustle and crinkle when you open them, dead giveaway right? Stealth Candy will be packaged in a tissue-like format and zip locked for silent opening and closing operations. No one will ever be the wiser, your secrets will be safe with us. Whether sneaking goodies into the movies, church, a funeral, class, whereever goodies can be snuck, the newest line of Stealth Products guarantees to satisfy all your undercover consumption needs. The rest, is up to you.
Now quick, someone fetch me a patent!
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