Congratulate me!

The class that I thought was going to bring down my GPA… yeah, I definitely pulled off an A- which has made my day amazing… only to be brought down by the daunting task of studying for my operating systems class which is basically all memorization of a very boring book thats reads like a technical manual written by Satan.

I’ve been reading random peoples journals lately. No one that I know (well, that isn’t entirely true, but the following doesn’t apply to anyone I’m actually concerned with) and I’ve noticed two rather annoying trends in peoples entries.

First, and the one that annoys me a lot in real life conversation is that many people in this world are sycophants. Seriously… I understand the need to have friends in high places even if it is only to elevate yourself, but do you people really need to do this to the detriment of yourself and your own friends. Ok… I have a few friends that have a lot of money and live in” high society”… but never (even when told these classy friends wouldn’t talk to me otherwise) would I ever risk a relationship with another friend to bolster a self serving, self edifying relationship that will likely lead me no where new in life. That isn’t to say that if I were guaranteed a change for the better that I would take that, becasue I most certainly wouldn’t. Loyalty and respect are “all important” in my world (as small as it may be).

Second, the teenage and young adult generations of today have mastered the severely annoying art of saying something without saying something so they can take a stab at someone without actually having ever said something so they have complete deniability should anything bad ever come of what they didn’t say. I truly love the people who say, “I have something really important to tell someone but I don’t know if I should. I mean, I want them to understand me, but what if it doesn’t go right?” (Really, read xanga to your hearts content, 90% of people will have something like that somewhere in their entries.) Its one thing to say what you want to without leaving details that could give some people too much information (i.e. names and dates and exact happenings), but do you people really think that who ever it is that you don’t want to say something to won’t know the second they read your post that you are actually singling them out trying to make them feel bad for not being a good enough friend for not know exactly what you wanted to tell them ahead of time?

Sorry, I haven’t vented in a while… I’m done now.

My own personal hell

The title is probably far too dramatic… but its me, what do you expect?

So finals for tomorrow:
ECE261 (Circuit Design) 9:30
STAT428 (Statistical Analysis) 11:30
CSE625 (Languages and Automata) 1:30

For Wed:
CSE660 (Operating Systems) 1:30

English Term paper due Thurs.

Yippie! On the bright side of things, I will actually get a whole week off of everything since I don’t actually have a job yet.

9-Mar-2006

I can’t remember who said this, but its an amazingly good quote (despite the sappiness and over sentimental feeling).

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.”

8-Mar-2006

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.  Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests.. and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love is not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out.. even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

9-Feb-2006

I’m not one for improvisational prayer so they are always brief. However, today someone is in need of great prayers and great love, so I shall do my best. I ask you all to do the same.

I read one of the most amazing thing ever last night and this morning. For my english research paper I chose to write about atonement. I can’t put it into words what the realization was, but it was a great thing.

Danaher, James. “A Contemporary Perspective on
Atonement.” Irish Theological Quarterly 69.3 (2004): 281-294.

Ignore the MLA format… it was a copy paste from by bibliography. Its only 15 pages long and well worth reading.