observations from a nobody

Last few days have been pretty typical. Classes are starting to wrap up which means all the last minute work needs to get done. My digital photography class starts it’s presentations tomorrow. I have mine ready for display. I am hoping for a somewhat decent grade to top off the class (which should be fairly easy). The professional photography class ends on Saturday (after one last regular class on Thursday). Still working on the final for that class. Going super last minute with it which isn’t too good but there isn’t anything I can do to help that. The project I laid out is much harder than I thought it would be and the current weather is not helping as I try and finish it up. I am crossing my fingers.

English is still a bore. He is still throwing daily quizzes at us and then the final will be next Thursday. Supposedly in class essay on some secret topic. I am really hoping I pass that class, along with political science. As for political science, my group was supposed to present our semester project today but time ran out so we have to present (and shorten) our presentation for Wednesday. Should go smoothly. The final is a multiple choice test next Wednesday. I like those kind.

Not much else to talk about really. The only notable thing is that I have been playing Forza 3 (hence the title). Driving like an asshole pays off like it should. Other than that, nothing else is special in the land of me. All I can say is that I could use my paycheck. Three more days.

So life is dandy and all at the current moment. Nothing is really keeping me down. Quite the reversal from some of the events in the last few weeks or so.

School has been ok, well aside from Tuesdays and Thursdays which I dread unlike no other. The others I enjoy going to each time they come around. Web is easy, except the test that we just took. Who the fuck puts essay question on a web design test? Both photo classes are going good. Getting better with technique and all that. Earlier I took some photos for a project due in two weeks but I need to take some self-portraits this weekend for this coming Monday. Not sure what I am going to do for them but I am sure I’ll think of something. The film class is a pretty tight group. Always joking around and such which makes the day go by.

Work is work. Nothing new about that. My current schedule makes it almost the same every day I come in. Unloading something. I don’t mind it. The managers know I can get it done when they need it so they usually just acknowledge me coming in and I get to work. Just that good I guess.

My time at home has been consisting of Dawn of War II, EVE Online, and now Empire Total War. The first two have been keeping me busy for quite a while. Empire on the other hand is pretty different compared to the other Total War games. Still figuring out the little details in the campaign and such. Another thing that sort of bothers me is that the time limit for the campaign seems shorter than the other games in the series but I am sure it will be fine once I figure everything out.

Lastly, tonight is the final episode of Battlestar Galactica before the 2-part series finale. Not sure what to expect but I know it will be pretty depressing. This season has been shocking on so many levels and I can’t wait to see how it ends. Science fiction has never been this grand. Sadly though I won’t be able to watch it as it airs due to work but it will be the first thing I do in the morning tomorrow.

Well life seems to be returning to normal. School has been keeping my mind busy and surprisingly my long days are my better days. Both the photo classes have been enjoyable and I have learned quite a bit (even if I make mistakes at times). Some of the new people I have met continue to grow on me (in a good way of course). Work has been okay for the most part. It has its moments.

The four day weekend went by pretty fast. Mostly working. I actually couldn’t wait for school to return (as sad as that sounds). Tuesday and English sucked as usual and work seemed to be a turtle but it finally ended. This morning I surprisingly dragged my ass out of bed on time (and not wake up late like last Wednesday). Got out the door and to school with my lead foot. Web desgin went by fast. It is too easy. Art of Photo was slow as it was peer critique day. I awaited as Group 2 displayed their attempts at the motion assignment. Some seemed to forget what the hell the assignment was and others were good. Time ran out for me to present so I get to do it Monday. Oh boy. For the first hour of my two and a half hour break I spent it in the computer lab to work on my semester project for web. Going smooth so far but I am going to cheat and set up something fancy that I probably shouldn’t do. Oh well, I have like 100% in the class so who cares (that percentage also goes for Art of Photo and English). After that hour I hung out with Christina to burn off the second hour. Then it was time for Intro to Photo.

I grabbed my gear from the trunk and headed in. A few were already in there drying film they had just developed. We were supposed to take photos over the long weekend but I was too busy and it was too shitty outside for me to do anything. Luckily for me it was just another day for printing. The teacher gaves us some new instructions and we headed in. I started off with a photo of a swing set from the part to print. The first came out too bright so I went back and darkened. The second and third attempts were blurry so I refocused and did a forth. It came out sharp but the teacher wanted me to burn a bright section so I went back and did a fifth. Between these attempts I talked and joked with various people and one in particular. There is a girl in the class that has a sling for her arm that is recovering from an accident and surgery. She is pretty much the jokester of the class and known to everyone. I pretty much pick up most of her sarcasm so I return the favor at times. Close to the end of the class time we worked on getting the prints washed and dried like we did last week. She joked with the teacher that we are pretty much the only two to actually take time and do it which lead him to laugh and start picking on people to do it after our “great” work. When it was time to go she looked and said “You’re leaving me?” I laughed and said “I’ll see ya next week.” Good times.

As for tomorrow it is English. Whoop de doo. Then I have to get a smog check but my car is probably going to fail. Yee ha. Can we skip to Monday please? Thanks.

Oh how karma and the world hate me. For once I do nothing wrong and yet I get the brunt of the aftershock. Let me get to the story to fill in the blanks.

After work last night I went over to my coworker’s house with one of the assistant managers to hang out. I ended up crashing over there and coming home this morning. The house was empty so I went on with my usual shit. Around noon or so I call my mom to see where she was and such. About an hour or so later she comes home with my dad (both were out shopping) and they call me down. At first I thought they were going to ask me about what I was doing last night so I was hesitant. I ask why and my mom says it wasn’t because I was in trouble, so I went down. Both of them were at the bottom of the stairs and I figured something juicy happened. My mom starts off by telling me not to say anything or rub it in which automatically pointed me in the direction of my brother. She then went on to tell me he did something stupid (go figure). The stupid thing he did this time was get pulled over by the cops, for speeding, in his friend’s car, with his permit, in another county. What. A. Fucking. Dumbass. Being me I said some smartass comment which made my mom reinforce the point about not making fun of him for his stupid decision.

About an hour after that he and his dumb friend come and my parents go out to talk to them. I’ll admit that I tried to listen in from an open window but failed. I did notice, however, that my brother has kept all his detention slips, write-ups, and the lovely citation/suspension notice on his wall. He does a lot of stupid shit yet is allowed to continue hanging out with his retarded friends. Back when I was his age I got slammed for the most trivial shit. I get pretty pissed about it and I have even told my parents to get harder on him but they do nothing. Although today this would only be part of the reason I am pissed.

In the last few days I have been planning an overhaul for my PC. It has been a long time coming since my current rig is a few years old and the only new things are the video card and power supply. I have spend time on Newegg finding the gear to push me higher and have found a decent setup for about $800. My plan was to replace everything and then take my current video card and power supply and throw them int he new box to save cash and keep them since I just bought them a month ago. To pay for it I planned to use the cash my mom planned to pay me back from when I had to give my parents all my graduation money to buy my car. Since my parents bought my brother’s car my mom planned to pay me back. That totals $1800. I would pay for the upgrade with what I needed and then throw the rest in my savings account. A perfect plan, but now there is a problem. Since money is tight she has been holding off on paying me back. To make things worse she now has to pay for the speeding ticket and any other payment due to my brother’s stupidity. My feelings now are really pissed off at him. I was feeling good about everything and now he has to go in and fuck it all up. The worst part all is that his court date is a month or so away which means I can either burn my current cash or wait who-knows-how-long and get my money from my mom and then have the current deals on the hardware go away. I’m fucked either way it seems. I just want to punch someone.

And as if this weekend couldn’t get any worse I have an English essay on character analysis to bullshit, study for a political science test, and prepare myself for a presentation in history.

Thank you world, for fucking me in the ass.

Today, yesterday, whatever it was, has been too long for it’s own good.

My day started with the first day of the Fall ’08 semester. Traffic sucked and parking sucked worse. Stupid first day. My first class of the day was Web Design. As I walked in the hall I noticed that one of the other teachers was telling everyone that some classes got swtiched around. I come to find out that my computer teacher from last year is now my Web Design teacher. Fuck me. Although this is somewhat good since I know how he is. Shouldn’t be too hard. Also it is good that I know someone in the class. This also goes with English 2. Same teacher was my first semester in college. Although this one is looking like it might be a challenge but my bullshit skills are ready. After English was my history class. I got there a bit late but in time (had to drop some books off at my car parked in nowhere land). Anyway, the teacher seems decent and it sounds like an interesting class. The sad part is there is no one I know in it. Political science also doesn’t have anyone I know but it will be a challenge like English. It has an epic research paper and the teacher is awkward in a funny “wtf” way. Should be interesting.

Work on the other hand was crazy. Lots of stuff to do and I ended up having to stay 45 minutes over to finish everything in the photo lab. At least I get some overtime pay.

I need sleep…