As of Monday, May 17, I am a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada (well, maybe not by local residency ordinances). I’ve already spent some time on the strip, but mostly I’ve just been hanging about in my apartment watching videos on Netflix and playing MMORPGs. I start work tomorrow at the bright and early hour of 8 a.m.

The drive to Nevada was surprisingly interesting with the change of scenery, but I’m sure the drive back will be worse as I’ll have seen it before. I was, in a very weird way, excited to see live cacti for the first time in my life – it’s too bad they don’t have sombreros like they do in Chilis [cue bad joke alarm]. I also saw my first tumble weed, and I saw the Hoover Dam. The damn dam wasn’t as exciting as all the hype would seem to indicate, but now I can say I saw it, I guess.

My apartment is decent, and is very close to my workplace so that’s incredibly nice. There’s even a pool in the apartment complex so I’m probably going to attempt to get out there a bit, despite not knowing how to swim. I purchased a swimsuit at Target – it’s brown with a white floral print – so now I won’t have to swim naked after forgetting to bring my swimsuit from Kansas with me.

Anyway, I’ll be programming in C++ this summer so I’m going to do a little bit of brushing up before I head to work for my first day tomorrow. It’ll be hard not to mix in PHP to the C++ on accident until I get used to it.

As an aside, Mario Galaxy 2 came out today. I’m holding out buying it until I get my Wii hooked up. I somehow forgot to bring my television with me to Las Vegas, so until I get a fancy cable so I can hook up my Wii to my monitor, or purchase a new television, I’m not going to be able to play any console games for awhile.

I’ll see if I can attempt to post more often since I’m here. I don’t know anyone here yet aside from one other intern, so I’ll have some time on my hands. I would really like to attempt a Photo 365 since I’ll be graduating in a year, but the last time I tried that I got too caught up with other things. We’ll see.

By the way, last semester oddly turned out splendidly. I ended up with 4 As and 1 B. I was surprised as I had one very difficult class in which I was expecting to scrape by with C but I guess my hard work paid off. Thanks to all who put up with my whining about the projects and offered assistance when I couldn’t figure things out – you guys are the reason I didn’t have to go and visit a therapist last semester.

Here’s a quick post to prove I’m not dead. Here’s the lowdown on what’s been going on in my pretty un-exciting life:

1. Amazingly enough, even with all of the stressful things that occurred last semester, I made it out with the best grades I have ever received while in college. I received four As and two Bs.
2. I went on a trip with my boyfriend, David, to Las Vegas for some relaxation before classes started again. Someday, I’ll have to get around to posting photos.
3. Completely unrelated to the above, I received an offer for a paid internship in Las Vegas, Nevada. I probably shouldn’t disclose more than that here, but I will say that I’m really excited about it.
4. I completely forgot to post a “year in review” post for 2009. Someone remind me, will you?

I’m in another full load of classes this semester so I’ll be as busy as always. I’m way behind on a lot of things, including Q*bee trades, so my apologies to my bee friends… it’s been far too long.

I’ll have to update this later with photos because I’m too tired to crop and resize my photos at the moment. So someone remind me, okay?

We arrived on Monday and things have been pretty good. We’ve been to see Fisherman’s Wharf, rode the trolleys and shopped at various places around the city like Chinatown and Union Square. We got to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe which is something I always love to do when I get the chance. I was trying to gear up to write a lengthy post about what’s been going on since then but I find that I don’t really have a lot to say. Read the rest of this entry »

One more week until spring break in San Francisco, California… hooray!

The good thing is, unlike in previous semesters, all of my exams fell 2 weeks away from spring break so that I’m not scrambling to study before break. My next clump of exams aren’t until March 26/April 1/April 3 so that’s pretty sweet.

I’ve recently discovered that I have an interview with a company for an internship on Tuesday. I’m hoping it works out, but if it doesn’t, then I already have another job lined up doing web development. It’s pretty much a no-downside situation which is a first, haha.

Anyway, it’s rather late and I’ve got a 7:30 a.m. class tomorrow so I’ll make some sort of effort to update more frequently. I’ll be sure to update this blog with pictures from my trip.

Thanks to Kimm for donating money towards cancer research in Relay for Life!

This site is pretty much suffering from a whole lot of neglect. I guess that’s an unfortunate side-effect of being an overworked college student but there you are. Tomorrow (er, today) is March 1 and I can’t hardly believe it. Spring break is March 16-20 and I’m completely excited because I’m going to San Francisco, California to see my sister Candace. It’s going to be pretty much amazing. I just have to last through two more weeks of classes and such and then I can take an ever-so-short break. Hoorah.

On a sidenote, I’ve begun tentatively looking for another camera. Not that there’s anything wrong with mine, I’d just like a point-and-shoot with some manual capabilities, with the obvious good quality pictures. I would really like to play with manual settings but my current camera is lacking. Any suggestions?

PS: I’m still trying to garner some donations for cancer research for Relay for life if you feel so inclined.