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!

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.