As many of you are already aware, I am engaged to kt.
I just feel like this is announcement is something that should be on lj, since the saga of my life is recorded here. But, kt and I have made a new blog where future events will be recorded. Visit:
music: TransSiberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve Sarejevo
I realized I never said on here that this journal isn't public. So anyone who happens to run across my live journal, be you a new friend or old, you have to be my live journal friend to view my entires. I update decently often and post all sorts of crazy thoughts about life on here. Just let me know, as I am often happy to share my thoughts with others :-)
In entirely unrelated news, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is amazing.
Cast: Editor/Director/Wizard: Alton Lee Karen: Kavita Joshi Dog: Adam Bahir Big Betty/Henry: Oren The Snow Queen: Laurel Burns Baron De Mountain: David Beaver Crow: Lehla Kisor
And... Alton's Amazing Yellow Jeep!!
if you want to comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx6JVJ9Y0mg
I just beat Final Fantasy XII, and of all the final fantasy video games I have played (7, 9, 10, 10-X, and some of 8) it is my least favorite.
You want to play a fun video game? Go play Kingdom Hearts II!
In other news it's rather loud outside my apartment room. I can distantly hear someone blasting Standstorm over the constant roar of yells.
At about 5:30pm or so today I plan on going to wal-mart and camping out until midnight for a Wii. I think I will go and maybe re-read the 5th Harry Potter book to help pass the time.
OK so I want to get a Nintendo Wii this year. It comes out Saturday night/Sunday morning at 12:01AM. So since I wasn't able to reserve a copy at Gamestop or EB games here on campus, my mom had the idea that I should go to a place that is open 24 hours and simply be there at midnight on the release date. Good plan right? So I just called a Super-WalMart to ask them to make sure they were going to get a shipment in, and the lady in the electronics department told me that there were already people waiting there for the PS3, which comes out Thursday night/Friday morning at midnight. She said every phone call she has got today has been about either the Wii or the PS3.
People already waiting for PS3 and it doesn't come out until Thursday night!!
She also said there is a limit of one transaction per person, so I can't get one of me and one for my brother and sister as I had planned. Granted, Wii will have a much greater supply then the PS3 (about 4 million Wii by the end of the calender year and 400,000 units of the PS3) but still this is crazy.
So I just got back from my physics lecture, and I know I am such a nerd but I must admit...
I really do like learning about special relativity.
I mean it's just so cool how time can slow down and distances change and speeds remain constant and all that stuff. It took scientists thousands of years to come up with the theories we have today, which also is amazing about all the crazy stuff people did before that to try to figure it all out. Einstein did it for them later, but certainly not without the aid of many other past physicists. Newton knew just about everything else.
Unfortunately there was some substitute professor teaching today who did a poor job explaining relativity so I am sure like everyone is confused. I know I would be if I hadn't read the HowStuffWorks article on it years ago.
In other news I updated my Mozilla Firefox Browser to 2.0... doesn't seem that different but it is faster. The buttons also look a little neater. I like it much better than IE overall, always have. I get much less ads and popups using Firefox then IE.
Right so I haven't updated in a bit, so I figured I should. Not a whole lot to write about though. I am sort of sick, so that bites. I don't feel like doing much of anything due to my illness.
So I have been hanging out with Laurel and Oren a lot and that's been great fun. We wactch movies and Dr. Who and Scrubs and such and that's fun. Always bring a banana to a party!
In other news classes are the same as always, O-chem though is proving to be a more worthy foe then anticipated, partialy due to my lack of studying for the first midterm which I then didn't do as well as I had hoped on.
I brought a 2GB memory card so my camera can hold like 1200 pictures. Then I realized this was stupid because my digital camera would die long before I would be able to take 1200 pictures with it. I guess I can use the memory card in the Nintendo Wii, since they use SD cards as memory slots.
Right so this guy recieted pi to 100,000 places from memory. it took him freaking 16 hours to do it. Obviously, he was japanese, since the japanese are the only people crazy and yet determined enough to do such a thing.
In other news not much going on with me. I have a midterm tommorow in math, but it shouldn't be too bad at all. I am not worried. Today I went to classes which were mostly pointless (I took a quiz in my first class but then he just wrote equations we already knew on the board) and then my other class was just reviewing for the midterm tommorow, so also nothing new.
I didn't go to swing dancing today because I didn't feel like it. I think I need to be more social, since the only club I am involved in is swing dancing, which only meets once a week, and I didn't even go today. Not like I wans't able to, I don't have any homework due tommorow, in fact today I just worked on homework due monday, and programed in Java for a while. Why do I make the choice not to do something social and then only look back on it and wish I would have gone? Funny thing is I will question have the same debate with myself next week. "Alton, you should go to swing dancing." "I don't want to." "Alton you know you will enjoy it." "I don't feel like it" and so on.
I went to the Engineering Career fair with Oren today. They looked for internships and such, the thing is, although the stuff they do sounds interesting, and I know I would be awsome at a lot of the different things they do, getting an internship really isn't with my life plan (I don't think). My current plan for life:
Start my own business, at least get one going BEFORE I am out of college if that doens't work go to med school.
Of course the only business Idea I have right now that's feasible and good is the scedualing program (which is what i was working on in Java today). Hopefuly it could be used to replace the stupid DAR that both OSU and Miami use. I already made the entire GUI once at miami, but now I am making it all again! The reason for this is the new GUI will consist only of HTML and Javascript, thus it can be run in any browser. This is quite different from my other GUI which was using Java's Swing. Basicly, instead of making it look like the thing you use to upload photos on Facebook I am making it look like Gmail.
So the whole feel here at OSU is a little different than Miami. Today was the first day of classes and it was interesting. Had it's ups and downs.
First class I had was Physics. Huge lecture hall, and it seems like a lot of the stuff that will be covered in that class I learned in AP, but not all of it. So about 50% of it I know from G being the great teacher he is, but the rest I will have to learn. It doesnt' seem like that class will be too hard, expecily with physics being (agruably) my best subject.
Math on the other hand was rather odd. The teacher prints off all the notes he is about to give in the lecture and then hands them out to us at the start of each day. But the way he uses to teach things, I can already tell, is rather confusing. Grated today we learned nothing new, but it was still difficult to follow him just because he uses odd examples and has a tendency to over-simplify things. I sat in the back row and laughed and some of the things he said.
Chem 123 seems like it is just going to be like the second part of AP chem, it seems easy. I asked annother sycamore grad and she said that the first half of the class we learned in AP the rest we didn't. I sat in the masses.
Chem 251, also known as Organic Chemistry, is going to be lots of fun :-) Entierly new to me, huge lecture hall, and also David T, Amber, Mimi, and this sycamore girl whos name escapes me are all in the class with me. The teacher is also a pretty interesting guy. I sat front row.
Then came my Chem lab today, where I was horribly lost. My TA is a great guy, but everyone else in the room had just taken the other chemistry classes here at OSU so they knew the procedures and where everything was and what was expected and so on. We had to write a lab report in class, and of course I had no idea what to write or anything and everyone else did from the previous classes. Fortunatly the lab people around me where helpful, and the lab wasn't very hard (a simple titration) I just dind' tknow where any of the freaking stuff was.
To rewind a bit yesterday was a lot of fun. I blew stuff up with Oren and Laurel and David T. using dry ice. We sealed a water bottle with dry ice and water in it, and when the pressure built up enough that it exploded REALLY loud, made 2 car alarms go off and caused the digital camera to turn off!! It was intense.
After that Oren and Laurel and I went to find my classes. I really apprecaite them going around and showing me campus like they did, it was very nice of them. After that we went to a poster sale where I met this nice girl named Amanda, and she whent around with us for a bit. After wondering around the Union for a bit, Amanda left and Oren, Laurel and me when to Hillel, a jewish place, for some free food and good music. Then we went to a this jazz orchestra thing for a bit, met up with David T and his sister Emma, and Andrea Nadel. We all then went back to Hillel where we hung out for a bit and I met some more new jewish people I didn' t know. I also ran into Erica, a girl who lives like 4 doors down from my mom's house in Cincinnati. So I talked to her for a little while to catch up on old times. After that Laurel went home and Oren and David came over to my apartment and watched TV for a bit and then they left. That was mostly my day yesterday, it was a pretty good day overall I was happy with it.
So it seems OSU is off to a good start I guess. There are a few things I would change if I had the power to but all in all it's good. Not like this has raised my expectations of college at all or anything, since Miami started off good too but later turned sour.
The summer has ended and I am officialy back at college. This time though things started a little differently then Miami. Stephanie has been very nice and has allowed me to talk with and make friends with her friends. They all seem like very nice people. Let's rewind a bit.
So the original plan was Saturday I would drive to columbus, spend the night at steph's, and then move in early sunday morning. Well, Saterday I found out that steph had already gotten the keys! So, I moved in all my stuff on Saterday, but didn't really unpack it. I spent the night at steph's, and then yesterday (sunday) I official finished moving in and unpacked.
Yesterday Stephanine and her friends and I went around and did some shopping (just a bit) and we ate and then went to her house to watch a movie and play crockett (sp?). It was pretty good, except for my multiple bug bites. Today I went with her friends again and we went shopping for food as well as for some funishings for our appartment. Expect pictures in a post comming soon. After that I went over to visit Oren, Laurel, David T. and eventualy Bubba. Nothing agaist stephanie's group, but I must admit it was nice for me to see some familar faces. I had been somewhat alone the past few weeks at home (I didn't do much social) and I was glad to see some of my friends from highschool.
The feel if things here is much different than Miami, but maybe that's just because I am no longer a freshman. Hard to say.
Either way I am already looking for some clubs and such to join, I am going to make something of an effort not to be anti-social once again this year.
So today I decided I would not work while I am in college. This way I can have more free time to do other things and work on my own projects that I make up. It made me sad though since they like me so much there. I am now working on training "the next generation" of fedex kinkos employees here at the store since I am like the master of order taking and no one else except for managers know how.
In other news does anyone find the facebook "mini-feed" similar to the combat log in WoW? it records freaking EVERYTHING. But it has immence power, as since with it you can see when people are "facebooking" or were "facebooking." although I do admire them, it does exactly what a program like that is ment to do, record EVERYTHING. now whether or not displaying everything with no option to turn it off or not is a good idea is questionable.
In other news the war with Tution Painters continues as I try to get some money for the 6 months I worked for them. In hindsight, never sign a contract where there is a fee to leave, as you know something is up then.
Also I haven't felt very well today. I am more sleepy than normal, I think I have something of a minor cold. nothing major but just enough to make me feel like not doing a whole lot, and to tampen my mood a bit.
So at the store meeting yesterday Fedex Kinkos (where I work) honored me since I am leaving for school here soon. They gave me a really nice mug, and a 1GB flash disk, as well as a "good luck" card that everyone signed. The manager thanked me a number of times and told me she would love to have me come back and work over the holidays. It feels so nice to have a job where the people there respect and like you so much!!
In other news this has been a rather long week. Work as been going well but life outside of work has been sad and stressful. I really haven't talked to sarah for a number of days, and I do miss her. Honestly I seem to spend more of my time worring about how she is handleing the whole thing then how I am feeling, which I suppose is a good thing. I haven't been sleeping as well as I normaly do, which happens when large emotional events enter my life.
I don't know what in the world I am going to do in like a week after both andy and pace leave. I will still have 2 weeks before I leave and most everyone will be gone. I guess work a lot, since there will not be much else.
One of the odd things about working in a store that is open 24 hours is the sunday late afternoon/evenings. It's really really slow. In fact, if you call 1-800-go-fedex, in will inform you that all Fedex locations in the United States are indeed closed on sundays. I told this to my manager and he told me to lock the front door, obviously joking. So, I am writing this livejournal entry for a very slow Fedex Kinkos.
One thing I like about working here is that I every once and an while get to save the day. Today, for example, this poor women was trying to make copies on a 1/2 sheet of paper. Fedex Kinkos says our copiers will support nothing smaller than 8.5"x11". Fortunatly, due to my engineering mind I was able to manipulate the sheet feeder and the setting to get it to print. She was overjoyed.
This is also the last day I am working my 1pm-9pm shift. On tuesday I start 10am-6pm tuesday-saterday shift, which is much better because I Get the evenings off but I still get to sleep in a bit.
So i have been thinking more about medical school resently. i don't know how i feel about it. My dad reminded me that it is my destiny, and he is quite possily right, on account of like everyone in my family is a doctor. But I just don't know if that's my dream or not, but I think starting my own business may not be the path I Want to take.
Ok so it isn’t the world’s largest, but it certainly is one of my bigger ones. The entry is about the end of Miami University, and the first half of summer up to this point. It describes why I quit Tuition Painters, as well as why I now work for FedexKinkos, and how that is going.
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