The weather here went from 70° Fahrenheit to dip below freezing and the transition was a pretty storm system. I took several pictures while on the way to an ACM meeting on campus although I don’t think I captured what it was really like. Hopefully you can tell a little bit, though. I’m no photographer

In other news, I didn’t do so hot on the test mentioned in my previous post. I didn’t get to study quite as much as I would have liked in part because I lost the flash cards I’d made and had to scramble to get all my notes together right before the exam. Oh well, it’s one exam, and I’ll just do better next time. I’ve got a lot of homework and such to finish up this weekend, including a term paper for psychology, so I’m going to be very busy. There are only 34 days left of semester and then my first year of college will be gone already. I know I said time flew in my last post, but it’s so hard to think that almost a year ago I was graduating… Oh well.

I’m sure that I will end up procrastinating all the aforementioned homework and have some “spare” time so I’m going to write a note to myself to finish up those brush sets that have been sitting around forever now. I’ve been slowly but surely working on updating my portfolio with a new layout and all the projects that I’ve completed in the past year (because I haven’t updated it in a year — how horrible…).

I’m really thinking about trying to put some of my new PHP skills in action and write some sort of a script - but there are already so many scripts out there for so many different things that I’m not sure what I could do that wouldn’t be repeating what someone else has already done. Any ideas? I’ve been having to work with PHP and MySQL with my work at the K-State yearbook and I wrote a script to handle a March Madness bracket contest for our university (for those outside the US: it’s a national college basketball tournament). It was quite fun even if it was a bit frustrating some times. Oh well, such is life.

I’m trying to get organized so that I can participate in the Blogathon this year, but we’ll see. I’ve wanted to participate for something like two years but it never works out. I figure if I get organized now then I should be able to get off work and such so that I can participate. And stay awake. lol

Edit: There are four new brush sets up! Enjoy!

I’ve been swamped with projects and exams lately so you’ll have to forgive me for my lack of posting. I didn’t think it had been that long since my last post, but then I realized that it was April already… oh my.

Anyway, I’ve got a geology exam tomorrow. I’ve made up a bunch of flashcards with material that is likely to be on the exam so I’m hoping for a good, solid A. (Did I mention that I got an 96% on my last psychology exam? Hooray!)

On a side note, I’d like to mention that I have several brush sets that are almost ready to be put up. I just have to make the image packs for those without Photoshop, and they shall be ready for the taking. I know, I know, I also need to convert them over for PhotoFiltre but those take a bit longer to make, not to mention the fact that I don’t even have PhotoFilter any more so I just have to make them from memory. What fun… argh.

I think that I’m sort-of, maybe, possibly starting to get object-oriented programming more. My last exam results wouldn’t reflect that but I felt much more comfortable with the last programming project we did (we had to make a program that generated Magic square solutions). I’m not quite as frightened by having to write my code in different files and classes now which is fantastic. I was vehemently against it at first but I sort of see the good side of it now, although I still strongly prefer coding like I would write a paper - from beginning to end, top to bottom, each part in sequence of it’s use. I realize though that for some problems it is indeed easier to code with classes and such now, but don’t tell my boyfriend that. I lost count of the number of times I would argue and whine about object-oriented programming to him…

I still would really like to have a photo-blog day but I haven’t figured out a good day to do it. I’d like to do it on a sunny, warm day but the weather here has decided that it’s simply not ready for spring yet and we actually had a possibility of snow today. Talk about a load of utter crap - I hate winter.

I’ve been screwing with a possible new layout for this blog. I know that I’ve really not had this one up long, but it’s a bit too bland for my taste. Not to mention that I don’t think I’ll ever get around to fixing the navigation issues in IE6 (which I wish to stab and throw down a flight of stairs) so it’s almost better for me to just make a new layout that just works and fixes both issues at once. It’s grungy but I like that type of design. We’ll see how it plays out.

As an attempt to help me blog more often, I’ve got a short list of blog ideas that I hope to write about very soon. So hopefully I’ll be writing again in less than a month… har har.

By the way, thanks for all the comments on my last post - it was very nice of you all

Today was David and I’s three year anniversary-type thing, as I’ve referred to it today. Time flies, doesn’t it? Anyways, because of our busy schedules, the only special, extraordinary thing that we managed to do today was watch V for Vendetta. It was good, as always.

I suppose there were other things about today that were more than just extraordinary. For instance, the fact that I spent about an hour in a cemetery after sunset to take a staff photo with the rest of my coworkers. It sounds morbid, really, until you understand that the theme of this year’s yearbook was “the dash” and so it was rather fitting to take our staff photo in a cemetery among the graves. Or at least that was what it was supposed to be about, but really it was just damn cold and we were standing on dead people. Or something. Anyway, it was creepy to be in a cemetery in the dark among all the graves. I’m an easily startled person and so I was wary that someone would decide it would be hilarious to come up behind me quickly and make me scream in terror but luckily nobody knew about this particular impairment of mine. I’m even startled when I open a door and someone happens to be standing in the hallway behind it, even when I know that they’re there. I’m sure the photo will turn out great and it is really rather unique but it will take some explaining and I’m not sure that everyone will get it. I’m not even sure I do, yet.

I’ve made up a list of what I want to accomplish here and I hope it will help me stay on track and get motivated to do something as far as new stuff goes. I won’t tell you what’s on the list, but I think it will be useful stuff. We’ll just have to see how things go because I have three exams next week and I plan on studying a whole lot. I also have a C# program due on Friday that I really need to get moving on but I just haven’t had that much time. I really can’t wait until spring break.

Life just sucks sometimes. I’ve come to realize that. It’s a basic truth. Life’s going to suck but you’ve got to believe that somewhere, sometime, it’s going to not suck.

… or at least that’s my little “deep insight” of the day. College classes beat the crap out of you. Well, maybe just me. What’s so ironic is that the class that I give the least of a damn about is the one that I have a 99.29% in (I leave class early all the time, I hardly study). I’m really struggling to find that mixture of what I need to do to do well - because what I did in high school isn’t working any more. I’ve made up a study schedule that according to some online study sites is the first step. I’m planning on covering all new material this weekend, and then spending these “study hours” just reviewing material. Hopefully this new strategy will help drive home all the new information so that I’m not scrambling for answers on the exams. We’ll see, though, I’ve already tried a few tactics that haven’t helped whatsoever - but here’s hoping.

This weekend has seemed nothing but short. I’ve read two chapters of my geology book, done two online quizzes and leveled up only once in Perfect World. Hmm. I did also watch a Nova documentary on ape intelligence with David which was pretty good. (We’re both so nerdy that we watch documentaries for fun… har har.) I’m dead tired right now but I’m in no mood to go to sleep, and I’m waiting for an episode of House M.D to load, so I’m blogging.

Does anyone else enjoy House M.D? I’m rather addicted - I’ve been watching all the episodes online. I only started watching at the beginning of season 4 and so it’s rather interesting to start back at season 1 and see how the characters progress and change. I really want House to hook up with Cameron…

In other news, 2 new brush sets are up entitled “Fireworks” and “Tiny Stars”. I dug out some photographs that I’d taken at a local lake of an Independence Day fireworks display for the fireworks set and I’d just doodled around for the tiny stars set. Have fun.