Computer Woes
Mood:  blue
If it hasn't been one thing, it's been another.

I got it so that the screen didn't automatically dim, switch back and forth into sleep and awake and regained functionality of the keyboard and trackpad. I'm not sure how but I put the Symantec disk in and tried to start up from that. Instead of loading Symantec, the computer booted off of harddrive and the other aforementioned problems just disappeared.

But now the CD drive doesn't work. I've tried inserting a few CDs (using a paper clip just to get the tray open) but none of them work. In fact, the drive doesn't appear to be on. It hasn't made any noise and when I go to System Profiler>Disc burning it says it can't find anything. *scrathes head* I am so confused.

(And Angelfire really needs to have better options for mood. I mean "on fire," "party time!" and "smelly?" Come on!)

Cryptic
Topic: Personal
Once I can forgive but twice hurts my feelings. Being deliberately left out of something reminds me of 7th grade which is not a good thing.

On a different note, I've found a drink I like: rum and coke.

Back up and running!
Topic: Personal
I bought a charger for my laptop today yesterday so now I have a fully functional computer. Yay! I installed AIM, TexShop and Antivirus (currently scanning). I also put on all of my backed up stuff. After the antivirus is done and after I sleep a bit, I'll put printer, floppy and tablet software on and then run DiskWarrior just to be safe. Then I'll hook up my digital camera (which now has a case thank goodness (note to self: return bulky case to Best Buy sometime later today) ) and then I'll play around with iSight.

I like shiny new toys. =)

Sucess!
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Service Desk conversations
Topic: Personal
I have sucessfully bought a laptop! The guy shipped it yesterday so I should have it by the end of this week hopefully. Horray!

My other success story is that I finally made it up the California entrance to school without stopping on my bike this morning. I went slowly but I didn't stop. I was very proud of myself.

No, I'm not dead
But my computer's harddrive is thus the lack of updates. I don't like to make updates from work but I figured I should do one.

I went to my parents' new house this past weekend. It was a lot bigger than I expected and really quite nice. They need thicker blinds in the bedrooms though. So I got to see the house, saw Ka at the MGM Grand hotel and gambled a bit. Also got nagged about what I'm doing come 2006 and my weight...you know, the usual stuff. Then I also went to my 5, yes 5, doctor's appointments. Never fun stuff. Especially the dentist. *shiver*

Other than that it has just been work, work, work. Except that work has been pretty dead. Dead enough that Leigh took off 3 hours early. I would have too except that there really should be a lead or staff member around and with Jim out...well I also have nothing better to do so I might as well get paid for being bored, no? It'll make a nice cushion of spending money for London =) (BTW, who wants presents? ;-) ).

I also need to start working on finishing my senior project. Yes, I'm STILL not done with it. Really it's just a lack of motivation since I already have my grade for it.

I've also been going to the gym and riding my bike to school MWF. It's amazing how much energy you get from stress. Now that I'm practically stress free, going to the gym is such a chore and I'm not doing as much as I used. It might also be because I no longer have a workout partner =(. Any takers? I really need a way to make it fun again. Without the stress preferably.

I'm not sure how I did it...
Mood:  surprised
Topic: School
...but I did.

Grades for Spring 2005:
Economics: A
Plastics: A
Number Theory: A-
Analysis III: C

Everything but Analysis surprised me. I thought it was impossible for me to get an A in Econ with out getting a 100% on the final but I guess maybe the curve in there got lowered. I thought similarily about Plastics but I also wasn't sure about my lab grade so maybe that brought it up. Number Theory there must have been a curve because I got 39/48 on the final and when I weighted my grade per the syllubus, I came out with an 86% for the class. I'm not complaining though =).

I was so happy to see those A's. Not only do I have above the 3.3 to graduate with honors, but my cumulative GPA went UP. My major GPA will probably suffer a bit with that C but that's okay. At least I didn't fail, which is good. Anyway, since I'm at work (yes, I'm being paid to write this) I'll sign off for now.

Jenny!
Mood:  special
Topic: Personal
Last night Bridget and I went to Santa Barabara for the evening to meet up with our friend Jenny for dinner.

Jenny went to UPenn making it very difficult to get together with her on a normal basis so we try whenever she's in California. Well Monday I remembered her saying that she was going to be in town this week so I e-mailed her seeing if we could get together. She replied saying that meet Tuesday night or Friday night. Although I didn't get this until Tuesday morning. After talking with Jenny and with Bridget we decided that we could make Tuesday night work. So Bridget and I biked to my place and then we drove down to Santa Barbara.

We met at Barnes & Noble on State street and then we had dinner at this pizza by the slice place. We ate, we talked and Jenny gave me my birthday present. It was quite funny because in the card she wrote that I was 23 when in fact I am 22. I whispered to her that I was 22 and then she starts cracking up because she said that she wrote that thinking that we were the same age but then it dawned on her that she's not 23 either. We had a very good long laugh about that. Then she gave me a cute stuffed frog that croaks. After dinner we walked along State street but by then most places were closed. So we walked until we could walk no further which was the end of th pier. Despite being foggy, it was very beautiful out there. Then we headed back and parted our separate ways since it was nearly 10:30.

It was so nice to see Jenny again. Bridget, Gianna, Jenny and I try to get together at least once a year but for the past two years I've gotten to see her twice =).

*squeals loudly*
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Personal
MY BROTHER'S ENGAGED!!!!!! :-D
Congratulations Justin and Tiffany! :-D

Oh I am so happy for them! This is so great!

I knew once my mom told me to call Justin when I talked to her downstairs. So I immediately called his cell phone and he called back just a few minutes ago. He had a hard time understanding my squeals of happiness ;-). And he promised all of the details of the proposal (which happened last night) when we see each other in Vegas.

*continues to squeal* Yay! This is so exciting!

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)