urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu Nate Nate 2005-06-09T04:48:48Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:94819 2005-06-09T04:48:09Z 2005-06-09T04:48:48Z I'm done writing in this journal. Everything from now on will be done in another account, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/~vanguard1">http://www.livejournal.com/~vanguard1</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:94619 2005-06-08T07:34:21Z 2005-06-08T07:34:21Z I'm feeling really unproductive. Since my class isn't meeting tomorrow, I've decided to completely take the day off, and haven't done any attempt at doing any work for my projects that are going to be due soon.<br /><br />And dang. Tonight would have been a great night to get dessert. Too bad nobody was available.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050607/od_nm/life_madam_dc;_ylt=AqVpjvqaQ02K0UGsxOlZufrtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl">News Story of the Day</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:94444 2005-06-06T06:14:03Z 2005-06-06T06:57:40Z There is a freaky stalker behind me and my new haircut.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><img src="http://www.phantomflow.com/nate/phone/SPA0014.jpg"><br /><br />Oh, and judging by this picture, it looks like I need to shave. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:94165 2005-06-05T08:55:40Z 2005-06-05T08:55:40Z New cell number. Contact me about it privately.<br /><br /><br /><br />I got my hair cut. I'm feeling very very bald. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:93915 2005-06-03T07:15:59Z 2005-06-03T07:15:59Z I have a final in less than 8 hours. And I'm so not ready for it.<br /><br />Now that I think about it, May was one messed up month. I turned 20, and some bad bumps in relationships happened to people I know. And heck, I never got my flipping ice cream cake I wanted.<br /><br /><br />Oh right. I'm supposed to also write about my day.<br /><br />My alarm clock went off at 6. Hit the snooze button 3 times in a row. Rolled out of bed at 6:20 and showered/got ready. Ate breakfast. I managed to grab the right cereal box today, unlike yesterday where I grabbed the orange box I thought was Reese Puff and had Cheerios instead. Drove to school. Got there at 7:30. Sat in my car. Harassed friend via early morning call. Went to class. Took out laptop. Surfed the internet for an hour and a half while professor babbles like an idiot. Had 20 minute break. Got coffee. Woke up. Went back to class for last hour. Professor admits he's a Democratic. Wow. Biggest surprise of the whole 4 weeks - not. The anti-bush displays were enough to show it from the beginning. Finished class. Walked 2 rooms down from the classroom and went to work. Spent an hour and a half staring at an LCD burning my retinas out. Did photo corrections. I'm sick of people from the 90s. Everybody should be required to now take pictures in digital format, in high resolutions for easier image editing. Went to lunch. Food tasted bland as usual. Went back to work. Finished editing all 200 images 2 weeks after initially scanning them. Uploaded all the iamges to the web. Website is 90% finished. Two problems remain - PHP error messages flying everywhere on the web server, and possible duplicates that I'm not going to spend my time looking for. Went to my other place of employment to pick up my paycheck. Apparently I'm being paid $11/hr. Paycheck was $40, so do the math. They say there will be work soon. Oh goody, more time with people that I probably won't like and will only have to see once in my life before they get old and kick the bucket. Left place of employment after getting paycheck and drove home. Took 90 minute nap. Woke up. Started working on defining all my study terms. Ate dinner. Defined more terms. Got distracted by people trying to talk to me. Made livejournal entry about my day in the form of one large paragraph with no real structure. Looking forward to finishing up my class tomorrow. Not looking forward to my evening, where I've been dragged into dinner and a movie with somebody. Not sure how I managed to get myself into a situation like that. Probably should blame the French for all my problems, though I hope they're not celebrating my getting out on a Friday night as a French military victory. Done with journal entry. I conclude with a link to this <a href="http://invadefrance.us/">site</a>. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:93571 2005-05-27T00:38:16Z 2005-05-27T00:38:16Z I am so tired right now. And that's after taking a one hour nap.<br /><br />Thursdays = One day before friday = Have to go to class, work, then come home and study my butt off.<br /><br /><br /><br />Professor hooks up his laptop today to show a DVD. Brings in speakers and tuns everything on. Nothing happens. He forgot to plug in his video cable. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:93392 2005-05-25T04:29:08Z 2005-05-25T04:29:08Z Evil moment of the night:<br /><br />Tyler: Yeah, she grew from a 32B to a 36C.<br />Me: So what did her waist grow from?<br /><br /><br />I'm so awful. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:93108 2005-05-16T06:03:33Z 2005-05-16T06:03:33Z I've been sick for about the last week, and have only recently been getting better. Started summer school last week; more of a pain in the rear than anything. Professor likes to go the whole class duration :(. At least he gives us a break in between though.<br /><br />As far as other things go, it looks like things are looking up for once. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:92879 2005-05-07T19:09:15Z 2005-05-07T19:09:15Z <a href="http://www.b3ta.com/board/4577623">http://www.b3ta.com/board/4577623</a><br /><br />wow. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:92571 2005-05-03T20:41:20Z 2005-05-03T20:41:20Z The three most important things I learned this school year:<br /><br />1. Change is good. Go Telecommunications.<br />2. A humanities professor who assigns you 1 textbook, 9 auxillary readings, and quizes you biweekly on 200 page books that you have no time to read, then gives you only 2 tests the whole sememster and still expects you to do well is a flaming faggot.<br />3. When a public safety officer frisks you without reason and racially profiles you, there's no way he's going to win when you bring everyboy and their mother into it.<br /><br /><br />Oh... and I didn't microwave a sock this time around. But I got my roommate beaten with a stick, and that's good enough in my books. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:92410 2005-05-03T07:03:51Z 2005-05-03T07:03:51Z So much for my week off from school. I've been asked to help out my professor with operating the camera at the Annual Bible Lectures. Seeing as how it's a great oppourtunity to learn and also that I'll be paid (probably crappily from what I've heard of the organizer), I decided to do it.<br /><br />Oh well. At least I get money to pay off my near $30,000.00 debt I'll have at the end of my schooling career. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:92079 2005-04-27T15:34:20Z 2005-04-27T15:34:20Z Yay. It's almost over. Last final at 1:30 today, then a quick interview at 10:30 tomorrow for another job, and then I'm back at home.<br /><br />Worst college truth: You always come back home with more than you left with. It's sad. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:91802 2005-04-24T08:19:00Z 2005-04-24T08:19:00Z <a href="http://www.americawestandasone.com/video.html">http://www.americawestandasone.com/video.html</a><br /><br />"After seeing that, terrorists will pity us, rather than us." --Foster urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:91410 2005-04-19T07:18:11Z 2005-04-19T07:18:11Z I'm tired. But this week just @#$%ing started... and I'm probably taking at least 2 finals this week early.<br /><br />I think I feel sad.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I want to go dropkick midgets. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:90735 2005-04-15T03:05:02Z 2005-04-15T03:05:02Z Had a crappy day.<br /><br />The girl who I text messaged and told to "go and fuck herself twice" came to my door about 10 minutes ago. Her face makes me want to puke. Probably doesn't help that she has a moustache. Maybe she'll develop an eating disorder and be laughed at for obesity.<br /><br />TC 270 @ 8 sucked. Girl was real bitchy about not letting us use the edit bay just to put our project to tape. She should have made a better commitment to reserve the edit bay earlier. Serves her right.<br /><br />CHIN 152 @ 11 sucked too. I'm so confused. And I'm going to take my test earlier than the rest of the class tomorrow.<br /><br />MUS 292 @ 12 sucked as well. We watched more of Les Miserables. I still have no idea what that musical is about. That's probably because I was fighting to stay awake for the last 3 class meetings while watching that film.<br /><br />Work @ 1 sucked more than losing your virginity on prom night. I sat in the office alone for an hour, then left.<br /><br />Oh well. In two weeks I'll be home and sleeping in my nice comfy bed and using a bathroom that I share with people that I know. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:90444 2005-04-12T23:38:12Z 2005-04-12T23:38:12Z Got two things on my mind that both have to be accomplished tonight. First and foremost, I need to finish my edit of our group project. That's going to be a massive pain in the butt, and I'm seriously going to hope that the computer is FUBAR'd. Secondly, I've got to find the will to stay awake after I come back to my room to study for my COM 408 (Multimedia Authoring and Design) test tomorrow.<br /><br />Aside from that, last night I fell asleep in my clothes, and woke up this morning before class. Wow. That's a first. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:90308 2005-04-11T22:25:17Z 2005-04-11T22:25:17Z Today I went into the edit bay to capture the footage we shot over the weekend. I logged the clips, and set it to capture the batch footage, and entertained myself for 20 minutes. (The footage is captured in real time play). It encountered an Error with about a minute left.<br /><br />That was a crappy 20 minutes of my life wasted right there. I ended up getting the problem fixed, and re-logged all the clips all over again; which involved playing all 25 minutes of my footage again so i could see the points where i needed to begin and end clips. What happens this time? No hard disk space.<br /><br />I don't think technology likes me today.<br /><br />About three weeks left of school. And then I come home. Oh, and next year I'm living in the on campus apartments. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:90000 2005-03-05T01:22:27Z 2005-03-05T01:22:27Z <table width="400" align="center" border="1" bordercolor="black" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr><td bgcolor="#66CCFF" align="center"><br /><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" style="color:black; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>You Are 10% Extrovert, 90% Introvert</b></font></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br /><br /><font color="#000000"><br />You avoid people at all costs<br /><br />You aren't one for social interaction<br /><br />And you limit your interaction to a select few<br /><br />Thank God for self checkout!</font></td></tr></table><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/extrovertintrovertquiz/">Are You An Extrovert or An Introvert?</a><br /></div><br /><br /><br />Well... that's interesting.<br /><br />Spring Break is drawing to a close, I think it's time for a long overdue entry. Started my break off by rushing out of my Chinese class at noon on Friday, and running to my car. Jumped into my car, and started driving off to Palmdale, to meet up with the Schmidts. Unfortunately, seeing as how Malibu Canyon was closed, we ended up taking Kanan and setting ourselves back an hour. We ended up getting into Mammoth at night, and spent the next two glorious days snowboarding. Few funny moments here and there. While struggling to get my boot strapped back onto my snowboard on a black diamond, I ended up sliding down a couple feet every attempt I made at it. Upon getting strapped back in, I stood up to go on my run, only to fall on my back and slide down the run a good 50 feet on my back. Snow wasn't as good this year as it was last year. Much more packed. Monday rolled along, and we had planned to leave Monday morning. We woke up to fresh snow, and knew we had to go out for one more run. I'm definitely glad we did.<br /><br />Seeing the fresh snow really did put everything into perspective, during those two short hours that we were up on the mountain. It made me thankful for everything and everybody that I had in my life. Of course, that whole thought ended the moment I caught a small bit of air on a bouncy run, and landed on my hip --HARD. After that, the gloves were off, and the words were quite sinful. Came home from Mammoth, and drove back from Palmdale. Put 120 miles on my car that day, driving into LA and then back out and back to Oak Park. It's nice to be home again, that's for sure. Seems like a lot has changed, from the surroundings, to even the people I once knew here. Regardless, it's still home to me. Spent quite a bit of time at the high school, catching up with teachers, and seeing how they have been doing. It's a definite strange feeling when people tell you that you look and sound older. I most definitely don't feel any older than the day I left. Only real chance I can note is that I shave more than I did a couple years ago, but other than that, I still feel like the same person.<br /><br />Compared to last year, this spring break has been much more interesting than the last. Though it may not have been as exciting, it still was well worth it. It'll be interesting to see what happens next year. Maybe another tirp to Mammoth, or maybe even a road trip (Tyler's crazy idea -- not mine). Whatever happens, I'm sure it'll be a blast. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:89421 2005-02-20T22:53:13Z 2005-02-20T22:53:13Z Because people have stated that they never know when I'm at home, I'm going to make this short post.<br /><br />My spring break is from February 28 - March 4th. I'm going snowboarding from the 25th - 28th of February, but should be back at home by the 1st of March. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:89221 2005-02-17T17:52:46Z 2005-02-17T17:52:46Z Some idiot keeps calling my phone and asking for Sergio. Idiot. If he wasn't there the first 6 times, and you were told you had the wrong number, what makes you think you have the right one? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:88918 2005-02-14T16:39:18Z 2005-02-14T16:39:18Z Happy v-day everybody. I'm going to grab my gallon tub of ice cream, cement myself to my chair in front of the TV, and spend a marathon of my evening watching Lifetime and balling my eyes out. Then after that, I'm walking around campus with a pair of sizzors in my pocket. Every person holding a rose, I'm going to run up and snip the top of. Then I'm stealing their chocolate so I can bring it back to my room later and spend the late hours of the night all to myself watching "Sleepless in Seattle".<br /><br />Go Hallmark Holidays. Dr. Pepper, you make the world taste better; but Hallmark Holidays can go **** themselves silly. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:88612 2005-02-07T07:35:16Z 2005-02-07T07:35:16Z Foster: There's something wrong with you, and it's not pie.<br />Me: PIE?!<br />Foster: No, not pie.<br />Me: Pie makes me horny!<br /><i>pause</i><br />Foster: Never talk again. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:88347 2005-01-25T21:56:42Z 2005-01-25T21:56:42Z <a href="http://www.ringophone.com/TallOrNot.swf">http://www.ringophone.com/TallOrNot.swf</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:88083 2005-01-20T15:47:24Z 2005-01-20T15:47:24Z <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050119/ap_on_en_ot/darth_tater">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050119/ap_on_en_ot/darth_tater</a><br /><br />I am so getting one of these. THe Mr. Potato Head I never got as a kid, but only darker. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:araditsu:88038 2005-01-10T14:38:16Z 2005-01-10T14:38:16Z I got woken up at 6 by my dad to tell me one thing- that school is closed for the day.<br /><br />This rules.