Graduation
Feb. 19th, 2004 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yaksha42My graduation is Friday the 27th. My dad will be driving up from Yuma, my mom will be flying in from Washington the Wednesday before to spend about a week here, and I just found out my sisters Laurie and Michelle will be there as well :D
Tonight Josh and I will be driving down to Chandler to the Cheesecake Factory to meet Linnelleth from C-o-E, who is in town from New York. When she first PMd me about being in town, I had no idea who she really was :p I've seen her around the boards a bit, but didn't really know her. Ahh well, should be fun :D Lorien is gonna be there as well.
So I'm a complete idiot. Is this news? Anyway, I still hadn't recieved my W-2 form for my taxes from the school. I went into the Human Resources department on Tuesday and they said they could get a copy faxed to me on Wednesday. I said fine, since I was presenting my senior project and I'd be in school. So I go pick it up Wednesday, meet my group, do some last minute stuff, and somewhere in the process of picking it up and going to class, I lost the W-2 =/
I looked everywhere I could think of except for the bookstore, which was closed. I stopped by there real quick to buy a zip disk. I'll wait till the school is a little more open and then call around the different places. But most likely I'll just have to have them fax me another copy. Why can't I just remember shit?
Well, as I said, I presented my final project yesterday. It went well. I have one Saturday class, a final on Monday, and a final on Tuesday and then I'm done :D Oh, the essay that I had to write for one of my classes, that had to be 15 pages long. I did it the night before it was due. It ended up being 7 pages. I still ended up getting 128/150 on it :p See lotje, it's not what you write, it's how you write it ;-) All those English classes I take pound in that same structure for writing essays, so I just took one of my old essays and rewrote it, but in the same format, and it all worked out for the best. I guess anyway :p
Wow, long entry. I haven't updated in a while. I don't really like putting depressing things in here :p I try and think positive and work my way through things, though that doesn't always happen. Hopefully with school ending soon I'll be able to get my drivers license and a car. That's one of the things I've always regretted not having. I'm sure Josh will appreciate not having to drive me around everywhere :p
After that? I dunno ... Should I look for a new job with my new degree? The degree is a Bachelors of Technical Management. But really, I don't like management. I don't like assigning tasks, telling others what to do, and watching the progress from a distance. I'd rather get in there and do the work. That happened with my senior project. I was going to be the paper pusher for my group, organizing everything and doing the reports. But I convinced my group that I could do a good job at programming the webpage, since none of them had much experience with making webpages, just a single 8 week class.
So what should I do? Any suggestions? The job I'm at pays pretty well, but I've had so many people there tell me not to get stuck in this kind of job. Maybe they just don't like me and want me gone :p Josh has police to look forward to, and I really hope he gets it. What about me? I don't think about the future much anymore. I used to know exactly what I wanted in the future, the type of job I wanted to get, but now, I can't really think of anything that excites me like it used to. Maybe I should just join the circus ...
Life has been weird as of late. I've had so many mood swings, something I'm really not used to. I'm normally very in control of my emotions, but I've seen myself go from happy to insanely depressed and not wanting to do anything so quickly that it scares me. I'm not used to this. Fuzzi Peach, the company we made the webpage for, needed to see it so they could evaluate us. The owner sent her two daughters to the school while we were there so they could see. Most of the rest of my group had to leave so I was left with showing them a lot of the technical stuff. When it was over, they thanked me and I got a hug from the one on the left, and it just felt really nice. I miss being hugged. It doesn't happen to me very often, but it always feels very good.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Just ignore me :)
Tonight Josh and I will be driving down to Chandler to the Cheesecake Factory to meet Linnelleth from C-o-E, who is in town from New York. When she first PMd me about being in town, I had no idea who she really was :p I've seen her around the boards a bit, but didn't really know her. Ahh well, should be fun :D Lorien is gonna be there as well.
So I'm a complete idiot. Is this news? Anyway, I still hadn't recieved my W-2 form for my taxes from the school. I went into the Human Resources department on Tuesday and they said they could get a copy faxed to me on Wednesday. I said fine, since I was presenting my senior project and I'd be in school. So I go pick it up Wednesday, meet my group, do some last minute stuff, and somewhere in the process of picking it up and going to class, I lost the W-2 =/
I looked everywhere I could think of except for the bookstore, which was closed. I stopped by there real quick to buy a zip disk. I'll wait till the school is a little more open and then call around the different places. But most likely I'll just have to have them fax me another copy. Why can't I just remember shit?
Well, as I said, I presented my final project yesterday. It went well. I have one Saturday class, a final on Monday, and a final on Tuesday and then I'm done :D Oh, the essay that I had to write for one of my classes, that had to be 15 pages long. I did it the night before it was due. It ended up being 7 pages. I still ended up getting 128/150 on it :p See lotje, it's not what you write, it's how you write it ;-) All those English classes I take pound in that same structure for writing essays, so I just took one of my old essays and rewrote it, but in the same format, and it all worked out for the best. I guess anyway :p
Wow, long entry. I haven't updated in a while. I don't really like putting depressing things in here :p I try and think positive and work my way through things, though that doesn't always happen. Hopefully with school ending soon I'll be able to get my drivers license and a car. That's one of the things I've always regretted not having. I'm sure Josh will appreciate not having to drive me around everywhere :p
After that? I dunno ... Should I look for a new job with my new degree? The degree is a Bachelors of Technical Management. But really, I don't like management. I don't like assigning tasks, telling others what to do, and watching the progress from a distance. I'd rather get in there and do the work. That happened with my senior project. I was going to be the paper pusher for my group, organizing everything and doing the reports. But I convinced my group that I could do a good job at programming the webpage, since none of them had much experience with making webpages, just a single 8 week class.
So what should I do? Any suggestions? The job I'm at pays pretty well, but I've had so many people there tell me not to get stuck in this kind of job. Maybe they just don't like me and want me gone :p Josh has police to look forward to, and I really hope he gets it. What about me? I don't think about the future much anymore. I used to know exactly what I wanted in the future, the type of job I wanted to get, but now, I can't really think of anything that excites me like it used to. Maybe I should just join the circus ...
Life has been weird as of late. I've had so many mood swings, something I'm really not used to. I'm normally very in control of my emotions, but I've seen myself go from happy to insanely depressed and not wanting to do anything so quickly that it scares me. I'm not used to this. Fuzzi Peach, the company we made the webpage for, needed to see it so they could evaluate us. The owner sent her two daughters to the school while we were there so they could see. Most of the rest of my group had to leave so I was left with showing them a lot of the technical stuff. When it was over, they thanked me and I got a hug from the one on the left, and it just felt really nice. I miss being hugged. It doesn't happen to me very often, but it always feels very good.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Just ignore me :)
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Date: 2004-02-19 07:24 am (UTC)Okay. ;)
Just ignore me :)
Date: 2004-02-19 07:45 am (UTC)'but I've seen myself go from happy to insanely depressed and not wanting to do anything so quickly that it scares me.'
Well it does at first but you'll get used to it. Think of it as a free roller coaster ride without the annoying screaming or pantwetting from other passengers
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Date: 2004-02-19 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-19 10:03 am (UTC)You'll be graduating in about a week. I agree - stick with this job, but send out your CV to places which interest you. If not, McDonalds would probably take you back. :p
I hate hearing that you've been depressed. *hug*
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Date: 2004-02-19 10:58 am (UTC)But hey, I LOVE the Cheesecake Factory. Yummmmmmm...
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Date: 2004-02-19 01:53 pm (UTC)Have never eaten at the Cheesecake Factory. I hear it's great though.
Ohhh. Found this amusing:
<Ralan> atkins works not because its a good diet, because people who are on it burn so much energy because they can't shut the fuck up about being on atkins
;-)
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Date: 2004-02-19 09:05 pm (UTC)But since I'm home, living vicariously, on to the important stuff, what did you have to eat???
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Date: 2004-02-20 12:36 am (UTC)And afterwards I had to have the mandatory cheesecake ;-) I got the dutch apple caramel. Mmmmmm.
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Date: 2004-02-20 10:35 am (UTC)Mmmmm...
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