It's been nearly 3 weeks now since I've returned from my trip to California. Time is as constant as it was before and I'm finally falling back into that rhythm of things that I've one or twice thought about.
As it would stand (or more correctly sit), I am in one of the halls. I sit here my legs feeling of a stabbing/prickly pain as if deep within them a dark essence is slowly nomming away through the bone. For you see since Saturday night, I've been working roughly 27ish hours... and though I'm running on real food, my body is starting to frown upon me for my (in)activity and lack of sleep. Oh I should mention that I'm trying function on a net 2 hours of sleep. And that's not cool at all. I'm alert. But that's really of very little compensation for the pressing sensation in my legs.
Monday's one of my off days and I'm going to sleep in till about 2 or 3 in the afternoon before waking up and deciding what I want to do from there. If anything :P
Ah well times coming and going and I need to get off of work soon. Praying for the rain gods to stop the downpour from last night.
Oh yes before I forget. Could you believe that last night was amazingly uneventful? Though I must admit the group outside puffing on weed and causing a vapour cloud to collide against Kellum Hall is of interest. Almost as interesting as the narcissist on the first floor. I have yet to figure out why anyone would want a large picture of themselves to be hanging over their desk...
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
The First Night
To say the least this has been an epic journey here. I've fought many many impossible odds to be able to arrive at this location and I'm still amazed after all of it that I did make it.
And so hm... yes a TL;DR version.
1. Initial Flight Got Cancelled
2. Rebooked Twice
3. Long LONG LONGGGGGGG plane ride.
4. Arrived Safely
5. Passed the fuck out.
6. Mingled.
And now for the significantly longer version as I have a bit of spare time after this amazing nap....
My story actually starts yesterday or technically the day before now. My original flight was supposed to leave Florida cross through Atlanta and then straight onto San Jose. But when have plans ever worked out? That afternoon flight got delayed 3 hours or so, which inevitably means I would have missed my connection to San Jose. And as such I decided against waiting 8 hours at the Tally airport for that flight (yeah I know I'm crazy but I got to the airport 4 hours before my scheduled flight). Blame being in line at Atlanta to wring the wrath of the lines into ya...
As for why Atlanta's being covered in snow and ice. A sign if any that I didn't plan for it...
Well anyway so I got it rescheduled to a flight at about 5 A.M. The rest of the day was a trip to the mall to buy some more PSP games; a really unnecessary trip to Godiva Choclatiers and lunch at Circa Sushi.
I woke up at about 1 A.M. Eastern yesterday in hopes of grabbing a hot shower and then calling a cab to the airport as all of my usually dependable friends would be passed the fuck out and not available. But as it would stand my flight got canceled again.
Rerouted to the 6 A.M. and oh that got canceled also. And so I prayed for and was finally able to get on the 7:29 flight to Atlanta. A restless night of staring at the clock and not having the stomach to eat anything leads to my flight into Atlanta. Which for all intensive purposes wasn't that bad... Oh except for the ice and snow and the fact that we were on the tarmac for 40 minutes before they'd let us dock. So I was in Concourse A when my flight debarked and my connection to LAX is on Concourse E. Did I mention that I had only 20 minutes between the travels?
I actually did get onto my plane in time and LAX was ok. The flight was long and rather laborous but I had two seats next to me that were open. 5 hours and inception + the first half of despicable me.
Another hour and over priced McDonalds and I'm finally in San Jose.
I'll get into the whole convention details if/when I wake up anytime soon.
I'm at the hotel now about to pass out watching animal planet
And so hm... yes a TL;DR version.
1. Initial Flight Got Cancelled
2. Rebooked Twice
3. Long LONG LONGGGGGGG plane ride.
4. Arrived Safely
5. Passed the fuck out.
6. Mingled.
And now for the significantly longer version as I have a bit of spare time after this amazing nap....
My story actually starts yesterday or technically the day before now. My original flight was supposed to leave Florida cross through Atlanta and then straight onto San Jose. But when have plans ever worked out? That afternoon flight got delayed 3 hours or so, which inevitably means I would have missed my connection to San Jose. And as such I decided against waiting 8 hours at the Tally airport for that flight (yeah I know I'm crazy but I got to the airport 4 hours before my scheduled flight). Blame being in line at Atlanta to wring the wrath of the lines into ya...
As for why Atlanta's being covered in snow and ice. A sign if any that I didn't plan for it...
Well anyway so I got it rescheduled to a flight at about 5 A.M. The rest of the day was a trip to the mall to buy some more PSP games; a really unnecessary trip to Godiva Choclatiers and lunch at Circa Sushi.
I woke up at about 1 A.M. Eastern yesterday in hopes of grabbing a hot shower and then calling a cab to the airport as all of my usually dependable friends would be passed the fuck out and not available. But as it would stand my flight got canceled again.
Rerouted to the 6 A.M. and oh that got canceled also. And so I prayed for and was finally able to get on the 7:29 flight to Atlanta. A restless night of staring at the clock and not having the stomach to eat anything leads to my flight into Atlanta. Which for all intensive purposes wasn't that bad... Oh except for the ice and snow and the fact that we were on the tarmac for 40 minutes before they'd let us dock. So I was in Concourse A when my flight debarked and my connection to LAX is on Concourse E. Did I mention that I had only 20 minutes between the travels?
I actually did get onto my plane in time and LAX was ok. The flight was long and rather laborous but I had two seats next to me that were open. 5 hours and inception + the first half of despicable me.
Another hour and over priced McDonalds and I'm finally in San Jose.
I'll get into the whole convention details if/when I wake up anytime soon.
I'm at the hotel now about to pass out watching animal planet
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Tomorrow
Well before tomorrow I guess we have to live through today.
And as such I might as well give a summary of events for this lovely day...
Today January 11th, 2011 (1/11/11) marks financial aid disbursement.
Great? Yes.
Amazing? No.
Fen is a sad sad individual as he neither has a crap load of scholarships nor does he have a FAFSA on file. And as such he's paying $971 out of pocket to cover this semester of classes. Fun? HELL NO.
So for all intensive purposes all of my holiday overtime pay is gone even before it lands in my bank account :(. Such is the life of a college student.
Oh did I mention I don't have all my books yet? Of the three conveniently located bookstores on or within a close proximity to the University NONE OF THEM HAVE MY BOOKS :(. Well ok that's a lie one of them had like all of the books but I'm ordering them online when I get a chance. As for the other 2 I'm going to go beg the professor for forgiveness for not having them yet as I joined the class late. Wait me beg? Nope. Not happening either I guess I'll just deal with not having it. And anyway with my charm and luck I have a feeling that I'll be fine.
Hm... What is today? Oh First day of classes. It's Tuesday isn't it? I didn't go to any of my scheduled classes last week. Why? Because I didn't feel like it. And because the English department only had 1 adviser who decided to go out on meetings during the heaviest time period when we needed her.... Yeah lets just leave it at that. Ah well Dr. Montgomery's Literature class which I should get reading like right now is in 2 hours and I think I'll thoroughly enjoy it.
As for the rest of my schedule... My freshmen Lit class is 2 hours after my senior one and I don't plan to give a shit in that class. I'll go just to get my credit done. And ya know if I pass with a C, I pass with a C.
After my classes end at 7 I'll have a lovely shopping expedition with my friend Chris. We'll be hitting up Wal-Mart and maybe some other places if I'm so inclined to gets my monies on. I do need some travel sized things on hand for my trip and a new toothbrush.
Finally onto the biggest part of my narrative. TOMORROW IS MY BIG TRIP :) Yus. the 12th marks the start of my holiday and that is an amazing thing good peoples.
My flight departs at 4:32 but I'll end up at the airport by 2 at the latest. As for all other details. My facebook will have pictures as soon as I have them and my FA account should have the rest as necessary.
Until then. Adieu
And as such I might as well give a summary of events for this lovely day...
Today January 11th, 2011 (1/11/11) marks financial aid disbursement.
Great? Yes.
Amazing? No.
Fen is a sad sad individual as he neither has a crap load of scholarships nor does he have a FAFSA on file. And as such he's paying $971 out of pocket to cover this semester of classes. Fun? HELL NO.
So for all intensive purposes all of my holiday overtime pay is gone even before it lands in my bank account :(. Such is the life of a college student.
Oh did I mention I don't have all my books yet? Of the three conveniently located bookstores on or within a close proximity to the University NONE OF THEM HAVE MY BOOKS :(. Well ok that's a lie one of them had like all of the books but I'm ordering them online when I get a chance. As for the other 2 I'm going to go beg the professor for forgiveness for not having them yet as I joined the class late. Wait me beg? Nope. Not happening either I guess I'll just deal with not having it. And anyway with my charm and luck I have a feeling that I'll be fine.
Hm... What is today? Oh First day of classes. It's Tuesday isn't it? I didn't go to any of my scheduled classes last week. Why? Because I didn't feel like it. And because the English department only had 1 adviser who decided to go out on meetings during the heaviest time period when we needed her.... Yeah lets just leave it at that. Ah well Dr. Montgomery's Literature class which I should get reading like right now is in 2 hours and I think I'll thoroughly enjoy it.
As for the rest of my schedule... My freshmen Lit class is 2 hours after my senior one and I don't plan to give a shit in that class. I'll go just to get my credit done. And ya know if I pass with a C, I pass with a C.
After my classes end at 7 I'll have a lovely shopping expedition with my friend Chris. We'll be hitting up Wal-Mart and maybe some other places if I'm so inclined to gets my monies on. I do need some travel sized things on hand for my trip and a new toothbrush.
Finally onto the biggest part of my narrative. TOMORROW IS MY BIG TRIP :) Yus. the 12th marks the start of my holiday and that is an amazing thing good peoples.
My flight departs at 4:32 but I'll end up at the airport by 2 at the latest. As for all other details. My facebook will have pictures as soon as I have them and my FA account should have the rest as necessary.
Until then. Adieu
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Finally Getting Started
After much time-wastingness and getting my laundry finally in the wash... I begin on the scripts for the webcomic that I had promised I'd do since last semester, year, 3 months ago...
It's not really that much to see YET. But with the 20 individual comics that I've gotten together so far, I do think that I'll be able to at least start off the story of my epic adventures with Night Staff.
My artist with the scripts should be able to produce some very very nice story lines that are of the type that I value.
And in case you were wondering, the facebook, FA, and actual link for the webcomic aren't actually up yet... Because I'm lazy like that.
I promise soon though.
SOON!
It's not really that much to see YET. But with the 20 individual comics that I've gotten together so far, I do think that I'll be able to at least start off the story of my epic adventures with Night Staff.
My artist with the scripts should be able to produce some very very nice story lines that are of the type that I value.
And in case you were wondering, the facebook, FA, and actual link for the webcomic aren't actually up yet... Because I'm lazy like that.
I promise soon though.
SOON!
Friday, January 7, 2011
4 Day Weekends!
THIS JUST IN!!
Fen's got 4 day weekends!
As it would stand me and my awesome time management abilities have set in motion what promises to be the most awesome semester (granted most likely my last semester).
I'm only taking 12 hours this last semester but I've decided that I'm taking the easy approach and cramming them all on 2 days of the semester to make my life significantly easier.
Tuesdays and Thursdays I'll be having Literature of the South, Global Engagement and Intro to Fiction. And an online weekly Middle Eastern Culture.
Why?
Simple Literature of the South though a senior course is taught by the amazing Dr. Maxine Montgomery (had her before for Studies in Ethnic Literature (which I ended up writing an amazing paper for tyvm)
Global Engagement is designed for people who either have studied abroad or want to study abroad and as such I'm going to get on the goodside with the head of the department when I search for interning options for the summer.
Intro to Fiction is a BS course simply because I need a lit based class to finish my major. And a freshman course won't be as murderous as some of the other ones I could have done.
As for Middle Eastern Culture, I only have to buy 2 books and in theory I could just finish all the assignments in the next 2 weeks and say deuces to the course :P
Of course this is all tenative and I'm just going to see how my life works things as I do have other plans and working 4 nights a week with Night Staff probably isn't helping.
Fen's got 4 day weekends!
As it would stand me and my awesome time management abilities have set in motion what promises to be the most awesome semester (granted most likely my last semester).
I'm only taking 12 hours this last semester but I've decided that I'm taking the easy approach and cramming them all on 2 days of the semester to make my life significantly easier.
Tuesdays and Thursdays I'll be having Literature of the South, Global Engagement and Intro to Fiction. And an online weekly Middle Eastern Culture.
Why?
Simple Literature of the South though a senior course is taught by the amazing Dr. Maxine Montgomery (had her before for Studies in Ethnic Literature (which I ended up writing an amazing paper for tyvm)
Global Engagement is designed for people who either have studied abroad or want to study abroad and as such I'm going to get on the goodside with the head of the department when I search for interning options for the summer.
Intro to Fiction is a BS course simply because I need a lit based class to finish my major. And a freshman course won't be as murderous as some of the other ones I could have done.
As for Middle Eastern Culture, I only have to buy 2 books and in theory I could just finish all the assignments in the next 2 weeks and say deuces to the course :P
Of course this is all tenative and I'm just going to see how my life works things as I do have other plans and working 4 nights a week with Night Staff probably isn't helping.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Waking Up
It wasn't even noon when I woke up today, not to the feeling of relaxation from actually getting to sleep for once.
Nope instead I wake up to three really unpleasant factors all balled into the same conundrum that is equally annoying.
The first of course being that one of my three roommates invited a female friend over and they wouldn't fucking shut up. Now I don't have any power over what they say or do but god damn it I just got back home from work less than 5 hours ago and I don't want to have to listen to you lovers conversations as I try to get some rest. And I'm sure you know exactly what I mean. It's that whispering thats loud enough for you to make out that it's whispering but you really can't tell what they're saying because it's sooooooo low.
The second of the trio is that I had this intense pain my chest coupled with the fact that I seem to have been crying in my sleep. Now on a normal basis I'd suspect that I was going through a not so pleasant regression phase where I was thinking of better times with the ex. However I tested that theory and noted to great satisfaction that it wasn't caused by it. I'll have to wonder what exactly triggered it and to the best of my understanding either some type of dietary fluke is screwing with my emotional health OR I probably have some kind of yet undiagnosed medical condition that I should probably get looked at.
Lastly of this set is the stress of anticipation. I've a convention next week that I'm amazingly psyched to go to at this time. And of course I'm not one to like waiting... It'll come and it'll go but I want it to be here now :p
Well that's really all for now. My head isn't particularly happy with the prospect of having to get off my ass to walk to the on campus post-office to check on my delivery, but I've been waiting for this package (of the several that I still have yet to get) so off my lazy ass again and to the Union.
Nope instead I wake up to three really unpleasant factors all balled into the same conundrum that is equally annoying.
The first of course being that one of my three roommates invited a female friend over and they wouldn't fucking shut up. Now I don't have any power over what they say or do but god damn it I just got back home from work less than 5 hours ago and I don't want to have to listen to you lovers conversations as I try to get some rest. And I'm sure you know exactly what I mean. It's that whispering thats loud enough for you to make out that it's whispering but you really can't tell what they're saying because it's sooooooo low.
The second of the trio is that I had this intense pain my chest coupled with the fact that I seem to have been crying in my sleep. Now on a normal basis I'd suspect that I was going through a not so pleasant regression phase where I was thinking of better times with the ex. However I tested that theory and noted to great satisfaction that it wasn't caused by it. I'll have to wonder what exactly triggered it and to the best of my understanding either some type of dietary fluke is screwing with my emotional health OR I probably have some kind of yet undiagnosed medical condition that I should probably get looked at.
Lastly of this set is the stress of anticipation. I've a convention next week that I'm amazingly psyched to go to at this time. And of course I'm not one to like waiting... It'll come and it'll go but I want it to be here now :p
Well that's really all for now. My head isn't particularly happy with the prospect of having to get off my ass to walk to the on campus post-office to check on my delivery, but I've been waiting for this package (of the several that I still have yet to get) so off my lazy ass again and to the Union.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
A New Year
2010 has died and all the lovely and not so lovely things that go along with that year are all but a memory of the past now.
I'll get around to writing some epic piece tonight probably, but until then, on my list of new year's resolutions is to do at least one of these a week so as to at least get my mind off of things.
After all bottling things up probably isn't for the best right?
I'll get around to writing some epic piece tonight probably, but until then, on my list of new year's resolutions is to do at least one of these a week so as to at least get my mind off of things.
After all bottling things up probably isn't for the best right?
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