Electronic Tumbleweeds

Yesterday I finally went flying in a small aircraft. I’d been wanting to do this for a while - I want to get a private pilot’s license, and I wanted to get up in a plane before I left for college - but alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

But that all changed yesterday.

It feels amazing to just be flying around, to be able to look down upon man and say “L 2 Fly n00b”.

Why can’t more things feel like that?

I have to go back.

I meant to do this more than one time before now, but… you know, I have shit that actually takes work to do now. Damn Hum papers. Anyway, here’s an update on my life:

• I’m not adapting to college life as quickly as I thought I would. I mean, I’m getting to sleep at decent hours when work doesn’t pile up, which seems to happen a lot more often than I thought it would, but I still can’t get myself in a studying mood.
• The work is a bit harder than I originally thought. I mean, math is my best subject, but I’m bombing out on what I learned (or at least should have) last year.

Anyway, that’s just a little bit of catharsis.

None to report, thank God. I didn’t get showered (most likely b/c they didn’t know my birthday was today) and I didn’t fall off my bike, so all-in-all it was a good day. I did, however, go see a movie (Burn After Reading, not worth it) and almost not finish my CS homework. Well, I did kinda not finish my CS homework, but 1 AM’s not the time for semantics. Anyway, I’m going to sleep now.

It was mah birfday.

Before I begin with my blog post proper, I’d like to recite a verse from the Birthday Song:

*ahem*

Happy Birfday To Me,

Happy Birfday To Me;

I can finally get my driver’s licence, so

Happy Birfday To Me.

Now that that’s over with, let’s get into it.

I miss Atlanta a little bit. No, not my family, and not my friends to a lesser extent, but the actual city - if I had $1.75, I had the ability to do damn near anything I want. There was so much to do there that it was crazy. Not to say that I couldn’t do things here (I am just outside of LA, to some extent) but it would take on the order of an hour to get there.

I should start my jobs tomorrow. I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew, but only time will tell. I might get showered soon, but hopefully not. I don’t think I’ll be getting any birthday money, but I’ll be getting a Nokia N810, so I think that makes up for it. Anyway, it’s 2:30 AM and I’m tired and I still have a shitload of work to do, so I’m going to sleep.

It’s Mah Birfday.

That’s right, today I got my first job (well, not if you cont working at MaxxFun, but that was for only like three days)! As of Monday I will be a UNIX Student Systems Manager (TitleSpeak for what I believe is a lackey who works on the mailing list) and a Help Desk Assistant. That right, I have two jobs! Apparently I still have some work-study (which I shouldn’t, I’ll look into that), so I’ll knock that right out before December.

If I’m still here.

For the most part, it was nonstop partying. With Dis-O on Friday and Wet Season/Crack in the AC on Saturday, I really did nothing but eat, drink, sleep and game.

And then there was Sunday, with the staying up till 2:30AM playing Bang and Gal’s Panic (not worth getting 100% on, btw), I barely woke up today.

But oh well, live and learn. I still know that I’m here to party and not work work and not party, and work is still my biggest priority.

But I am hoping we play TF2 this weekend at Crack in the AC.

Was last night. Yeah I drank a little, bot nowhere near enough to get drunk, plus I decided to go to Crack In The AC to play Dystopia, and that didn’t end until an hour after Wet Season. Oh well, there’ll always be next year. Plus I didn’t wank to get wasted after a week in school.

So how do I feel after my first true day in college? A bit tired, to say the least. I got up way earlier than I had to this morning, and I felt sotired through all of my morning classes. Than again, on Tuesday my morning classes are all my classes, so I felt like I was going to sleep through all my classes. But hey, I’ve finished .03% of my college career! only 99.97% to go!

This time tomorrow I’m going to be a college student! I can’t believe it, I’ve been waiting for this moment since the first day of high school, and here it is before me, and all I have to do is go to sleep. This feels almost like a dream where I’ll wake up and I’ll still be a senior or something and I’ll curse myslef out for falling for it so much.