A Procrastinator's Ramblings (part "lost count long time ago" of "way too many to predict")
Mood:  chatty
Analysis studying has been going blah. I've looked about 60 of the 80 or so problems assigned throughout the quarter. I've only been able to 20 of them. Some of the ones I can't do are the ones we even turned in (obviously I got them wrong the first time too). Blarg. Wednesday is going to suck so much. At least Michelle took 2 of my hours from me at work which works out nicely. It will allow me to go to the gym and attend the Cardio Fabulous class which I've never been to before. And then I'll be on track for studying from 1-8:30 or so. I was thinking about going to the Step class too at 4 but I think I won't considering how much I'm not absorbing Analysis.

Speaking of gym classes, I went to the abs one today. I hadn't been to the abs class since last spring. I tried it at the start of Winter quarter but didn't care for it because I didn't feel like I worked anything. And then naturally I was scared to do intense abs work. Since then I've been slowly working my way back up. At first I was just doing 25 crunches then sitting up for a break and then a second set. Then I went to doing 25 crunches in the middle, and 25 on each side with some lying down pauses between sets and whenever it felt like too much. And more recently I've gone back to where I was before, 3 sets in the middle and one on each side for a total of 125 with some pauses (although yesterday I nearly went straight through). So I felt confident to try the class again and especially since I could actually make it this week. Although I think it was at the same time during the quarter and I could have technically done it, just not changing for class like I did Tuesdays and Thrusdays but my class was in the silo which is a) farther b)more people packed more together. Not to mention that leaving about 5 minutes early in a half hour class is kind of a lot. Anyway, I didn't feel too out of place attending in the last week since the instructor was subbing for someone else for this week so she didn't know per se that I was "new." And I found out that she'll be teaching the abs and step classes over the summer. She said it would be the first time she'd be teaching the step class which was good news to me so hopefully it won't be too intense, especially with my knee and calves acting up the way they have been lately. Actually I had to cut my treadmill extremely short today but my left leg just didn't feel right at all after a few minutes. Normal burns I would try to work through but this one today was different...it really hurt but it wasn't my knee like it has been for the past 5 weeks or so. Afterwards, the pain shifted to my right quad and hamstring. Go figure.

Interesting...this started off as an "Analysis sucks!" post and turned into a gym post. And now turning into a "silly Valencia" post. So they sent us those notifications about painting for last week but only did railings and the fronts of 4 sections. When I came home today, they finally covered our windows so I guess we'll be painted tomorrow. It's just so silly that they apparently got hardly anything done last week and are now bugging us during finals week. And poor Julie...she has had to keep her windows closed for th past week for the non-existant painting. At least it has been cooler the past couple of days so she hasn't had to suffer too much from the heat.

KME Founder's Award
Topic: Math Club
Remember that award I "won"? Well apparently I was slightly wrong about it. I get $200 instead of $100. That's pretty cool. Although when you consider that because I never got receipts for the pizza for the softball games, that's really only about $90 I'm getting. Anyway, apparently it's a scholarship check so it's not going into my student account so I guess it's "free" money.

Now if only I could get $200 for everytime I do a sucky job at something...I'd be so rich!

Edited to correct a runaway link tag (stupid quotation mark)

Ode to Math Clu
Now Playing: Pink's "Don't Let Me Get Me"
Topic: Math Club
Ode to Math Club
I thought I always did what was best,
How was I to have guessed
That you would silently protest
And thus lose interest?

I thought we were having fun,
Making the club open to everyone
But silently you had begun
Me and the club to shun.

I thought this is where I did belong
That I'd be a leader and be strong
But it didn't take you long
To Show me that I was completely wrong.

I thought hard I did try
But privately I did cry
Until to myself I could no longer lie
And decided to bid Math Club goodbye

I did what I thought best
And as you did suggest
My resignation was truly blessed
And the one thing you didn't detest.

Crazy Past 5 Days
Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: "Keep It Up" by J & R Project on "Trance Party Vol. 3"
After spending 6 hours last night running Disk Doctor and Speed Disk, my computer seems to be running okay. No more clicky noises, and it took less than 50 minutes for it to boot up this morning. It just has to last me a couple more months but it has been good to me for the past 4 years.

In school news: one final down, 3 to go. I took my Plastics final yesterday morning after they finally figured out what happened to my test. I was supposed to have taken it Thursday afternoon. Apparently, when my professor e-mailed the exam the Wednesday before, it got labelled as junk mail. And as the woman at the DRC said, "what does that say about [my] test?" ;-). Anyway, I think I'll probably get a B in the class. B+ if she does +/- grading but I don't think she does. And soon I'll be getting my butt in gear for my date with Robert Kennedy and just be doing Analysis until my eyes bleed or until the time of the final. Whichever comes first. Then I'll start studying for Number Theory and Econ. I think I stand a chance of an A in Number Theory but it will really depend on how I do on the final. Econ I'll definitely be getting a B in. And as for Analysis...well, let's hope for a repeat miracle.

In club news: I attended all three of my clubs end of the year events last night. The start times of each worked out well enough that I could go to all three. All though by the time I reached the third one, I couldn't eat anymore ;-). The first one was the Math student vs. faculty softball game/End of the Year BBQ. There was a very good showing and the faculty even managed to field their own team and then plus some. The students still lost 10-16 but at least it was close and we were ahead at a few points. I only got to bat twice and oddly didn't see the ball often in left field which kind of sucked. I really wanted to see more action to see if I noticed a difference in my performance after taking Sports Conditioning twice a week for the past 10 weeks. Ah well. The funniest play was when Kyle was coming home and tried to slide away from Dr. Rawlings tag and Dr. Rawlings ended up falling over. I told Kyle, "Way to trip up the faculty!" hehehe. After the game, I quickly had some of the BBQ and then took off for Nucci's for NSCS' event. When I got to Nucci's I started a little concerned because I was late but I didn't see anyone there yet. So I went into the bathroom to change but when I came out, still no one but then a few minutes later they all arrived. We ended up switching locations to Village Host (which ironically was down the street from the softball game) since Nucci's didn't have enough seating. So I had pizza with NSCS. I think in the 3 years I've been in NSCS, that was the second event I've ever attended. Whoops ;-). Then I cut that a little short and went to the Methodist Church for the last Shabbat dinner with Hillel. I didn't have any food there though. But I did talk with a few people and watched all the presentation and the slide show. Then I left there and came home; it had been a long day. But as I said above, it went even longer since I was trying to fix my computer.

In personal news: My parents sold their house. Well first it was "we have an offer," then it was "we have to be out of here by June 21st and will be living in a rented one bedroom furnished apartment" and after speaking with my dad this morning it's "I'm quitting my job and we're moving to Vegas." So our weekend trip to Vegas in 3 weeks has gone from a "see the house before we move in" trip to a "come see our new house days after we move in" trip. Interesting how all that happened in a span of about 4 days. So when I move out in August, I won't be moving home but rather just in with my parents. *sigh* I'll miss you 4139.

Valencia's Notifications
Now Playing: "Mixed Up World" by Sophie Ellis Bextor on "NoAlbum"
Topic: Apartment
While I was downstairs talking with Kathryn and Julie, I glanced outside and see that across the street there's a guy with a bucket. He looked like a painter. I shift my view and see that he is a painter and he appeared to be painting some random spots. Kathryn thinks it's a primer which is probably right since he was only painting over the grey areas that were bad. But as we're watching this, we see another guy go around and put little notices on everyone's doors. He then comes across the street and starts doing ours. We pick ours up as soon as he went by. It was a notice that Valencia had hired someone to repaint the entire complex and to make sure th front side windows and doors were closed between certain hours. They said they would be painting Tuesday May 31 to Friday June 3. All the while we can see from our window a guy painting today.

(Hahaha, just detected the music. It's an appropriate title ;-) )

Roommate Aftermath
Now Playing: "Bones and Joint" by Finger 11 on "NoAlbum"
Topic: Apartment
When I went down for dinner, I was surprised to find that Kathryn had done her dishes despite us not being out of silverware. It wasn't until I went back down for my meds that I saw that she had also straightened up the shelves. That's when I figured out why: she had company. Like 3 of her friends came over and they watched a movie. I wonder if she would have done any of the counter cleaning had I not done it last night. Or perhaps if she would have had company at all had I not done it. But at least the shelves got straightened up.
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Julie gave me Hershey's Swoops as part of an apologizing for not doing any cleaning and for not cleaning out old food from the fridge and for not fully cleaning the Forman grill. I pretty much forgave her for the grill and tried to shrug off the fridge thing but also made a point. She said she forgot about it or whatever and I said well the fridge does get crowded so it's hard to see everything that's in there.

Unbelievable
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: "Harsh Words" by Maren Ord on "Waiting"
Topic: Apartment
When I came upstairs, Kathryn was cleaning the mold filled fruit salad bowl. I figured she would have done the rest of her dishes while she was there. I just went down to do my own dishes since the sink had been occupied earlier. The only thing she washed was the bowl. Unbeliveable.

Also while I was downstairs, Julie came home. I didn't say anything about the food I placed in front of her door figuring that she would come downstairs and ask. Nope. When I came back up, she merely just pushed the containers aside.

*sigh* I am SO living by myself when I settle down.

"Dealing with mold is my speciality" "Thanks for cleaning. It looks nice."
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: "Love Takes Time" by Mariah Carey on "#1's"
Topic: Apartment
What's wrong with that picture? The second comment Kathryn said when she came in and saw me cleaning. I just said "yeah." When she saw me working on the fridge she said she knew that her fruit salad and her meatloaf could go and that she would take of them. I took her up on that. Neither dish was more than half gone. Granted, the fruit salad was leftovers from a party...over 2 weeks ago. When we pulled the tin foil off of that mostly all you could see was white mold at least half an inch tall. EWWWWW! That's when she said something along the lines of "don't worry, mold is my speciality" or something like that. So she dumps the fruit and starts to wash. This is coming from the girl who insisted that all of dishes be sanitized in bleach when we changed apartments because the rats might have gotten into that cupboard (for the record, I don't think they did).

I also had her go through the apples because I couldn't tell if any of them were bad. Unfortunately, all of them were good but at least I made her realize that yes, we have a shitload of apples and that she shouldn't buy any more. That is, after the 2 she bought sometime this week. *palmforehead* I also had her go through the oranges which were, unfortunately, all good. So our crisper drawer (or whatever you want to call it) that runs the width of the fridge has a third of it taken up by apples, another third by oranges and the rest by misc veggies. I also had the pleasure of throwing out a lot of meat that had sell by dates at least 10 days old. I might add that half of this meat had never even been opened. *eye roll* I understand implusive buying. I do. I do it all the time. But I usually at least start eating what I buy that day. Not leave in the fridge for 2 weeks.

There were also two containers of leftovers that were Julie's. I'm not sure what one of them was but it sure as hell didn't look appetizing. The other was some chicken that has been sitting in a container for at least the past 2 weeks if not a month. I took both containers and put them in front of Julie's room. No way she can miss that. I also left a note on top of the Forman grill asking yet again that it be cleaned after being used and that the grease underneath be wiped off as well. It took 9 months but I'm finally getting agressive about the food spoiling. I'm tempted to go through the boxes on the shelves and all the stuff in the cupboards but that kind of stuff tends to last longer by default. But I should go through some it. Who knows, *I* might have something up there that has expired and just didn't know it because I can't see it.

But I really am sick and tired of being the only one consistantly cleaning anything. Sure, they clean their own rooms but it took me having guests over for dinner for Kathryn to clean her bathroom. And she does wipe up a little when she has raw chicken on the counter but that's it. Neither of them has ever cleaned the counters thoroughly, vacuumed (too much work to move it but not too much work to sweep the carpet *eye roll*) the living room, sweeped or washed the kitchen floor or scrubbed the shower. It makes me wonder what their limit point is. I mean how long/ how bad it has to get before they do anything about it. For me it's about two weeks and that's only because I can only really deal with it on the weekends. But I mean, how could they not notice that the kitchen floor was filthy? I mean, my shoes were sticking to the floor. There was peachish color stain on the counter. I mean, really, how does this not bother them? It drives me crazy but I try to let it go so they can clean it up but then my limit point is reached and I cave.

At least in a couple of weeks Julie will be moving out and it will just be me and Kathryn. So at least the amount of food in the fridge will grow at a lesser rate. It's too bad Kathryn is staying...I was so looking forward to having the apartment to myself. Hopefully my roommates in London won't be as bad. Although there we'll actually be sharing rooms. I made it through a year with Katie, and I'm making it through this year so 15 weeks should be no sweat right?

The Stupidity of Some People
Now Playing: "Cold Hearted" by Paula Abdul on "Forever Your Girl"
Topic: Work
Work this morning was very busy for two reasons.

1) Something went wrong with RAIN, a dial-up service that offers a special deal to Cal Poly students, faculty and staff. Other than that, there is NO affliation with Cal Poly yet people felt the need to call us. We gave them the number we had for RAIN (okay, for one guy Zach accidentally transposed the last digits but the guy was just annoying, he called 5 times) but when they couldn't get through, they called us again. We had to try to calmly explain that, contrary to what they think, we are NOT RAIN tech support and have no idea what happens with their system. After a few distinct calls about it, we tried to get a hold of RAIN and had problems but eventually we got through and they said "yeah, we're having problems, the users need to talk to us to switch their dial-up number." Ironically the calls pretty much stopped after that. I remember when the modem pool was first shut down and pretty much all faculty and staff on it went to RAIN because it was free the first year for them and then the cheapest after that. They called us then too to setup their computer to connect to RAIN. We even had a RAIN installation guide at some point because the RAIN tech support sucked so much. Doesn't mean that it was our a responsibility though. Problems with Cal Poly servers or on a Cal Poly owned machine? Call Cal Poly. Problems with RAIN on a home machine? Call RAIN!

2) The main reason it was busy this morning was because of an e-mail virus outbreak. We're not sure why our gateway wasn't stripping the messages of their attachments but some went through. But really, people. If you get 5 messages, each claiming to be from a different sender with different yet similiar subjects all saying that you're account was suspended and to see the attachment for more info, do you HONESTLY think that they are legitimate e-mails? Come on! a) We'd never send you 5 messages in 5 minutes from 5 different addresses saying your account was already suspended; b) If we were to send such a message, it would have been from OpenMail Administrator; c) and it would have contained all pertinant information in the message, not in an attachment; d) we give notification that your account is to be frozen a good 2 weeks before it done so. e) If your account was suspended/locked/deleted, how do you login to read that message?
Fortunately of all the people calling asking about those messages, only about 3 of them were stupid enough to open the attachment. And that's not including my roommate who asked me when I got home. Lucky for everyone else working today, as I was leaving Terri gave us the update that the gateway should be stripping the messages of the virus now. *shakes head* Some people....ARGGGGH!

London :-D
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: "The Man Without Fear" by Drowning Pool W/ Rob Zombie on "Daredevil The Album"
Topic: School
Okay, it's officially official now. I'll be going to London. I got my letter of acceptance tonight.

I'm also glad that I decided to stick out Econ. It turns out that the two Cal Poly professors that were orginally going to be teaching in London are no longer able to do it. They found out today that one of them got hired by another university. So only one out of the four classes the two of them were going to teach is still being offered and it isn't the one I was trying to substitute for Econ. Anyway, I decided to take the music class instead. Fortunately, the two classes I do need to graduate are still being offered.