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My Life, or something like it :) [This is long folks….get out your reading glasses]

Well, today marks half the year come and gone. So, I thought it would be good to do a little recap and analysis of my year so far, and the remainder of the year to come. I would like to start this with a little bit of the events/highs/lows leading up to this year.

First off, I had a terrible semester. All in all, I don’t consider it a waste, because a lot of good things happened though. But to start off, I was sorta in a rut anyway at the begining of the semester. Because the preceeding spring had some really high points, along with some dissapointments….those of you who know me, know that I was part of very successful project group, but got a C in a class i really enjoyed because I spent so much time in the other class for this project. So, in comes summer, and I can’t find a job. I spent a good amount of time going to temp agencies trying to find one, and sending out resumes. But nothing…finally, i settled for a data-entry job at the aid department for the state. This was a horrible job. The people were nice, but the job sucked…just typing away, all day, entering stupid stuff, doing mind-numbingly easy stuff. This, marked the begining of my binge-drinking summer. Lots of good times….lots of dumb things done. But the school year started, and it was my goal to forget this crappy job, and the fact that I dated no one all summer, and no one even appeared remotely interested. So, I drank more, I was piss drunk five nights in a row at the begining of the semester. That was a lot of fun, and a lot more stupid things done. Some of you may think, hey, five days, no biggie. But for me, that was quite a bit. But this proved no good what-so-ever, because now, I started behind in all my classes. And while taking four highly technical classes, it isn’t good to start behind. So, the short version of the semester I will break down in a list.

Good Things

  • Midnight Soccer
  • Great Roomates, closer then ever w/ those guys
  • Great friends, made some new ones, got to know others better….started talking to some old ones agian
  • Passes my last physics class
  • Had a lot of understanding friends during some hard times

    • Bad

  • Failed my ECE229 class
  • Pretty sure I pissed my cousin off, who has been great to me as a mentor and cousin….Sorry Dan
  • Drank a lot at the beginning of the semester
  • Got a D- in that physics class
  • Got a D in math 315…..prick Prof. graded like a jerk
  • Got on academic probation because of bad grades
  • Parents put me on medication for depression in November….
  • Initial Side effects of this were that I hated everyone that wasn’t close to me, and wanted to kill people, and had absolutely no mechanisim for dealing w/ any sort of problems that caused an emotional response
  • Wanted to kill my lab partner
  • Couldn’t sleep right, when I tried to sleep, didn’t get a lot of sleep in general

    • There is actually some other stuff too that happened that was sort of crap-tastic, but not worth mentioning….mostly having to do w/ the opposite sex, but in light of recent events I find it unconsequential.

    This is all why I thought it was necessary to run down this year….sort of a self-therapy sort of thing, along with, I need some goals to get gonig with the rest of the year, so I don’t fall into the same pattern agian. So I’ll start with some great unexpected things about this year.

  • First and foremost, I started going back to church….I found the absolutely best place to go to church for me, and it is in southern Orange county….check it out Saddleback’s Website
  • I started going to a small group (a group sorta like a bible study, but a bit different) and I met a lot of cool people
  • One of these people I started dating, and she is comming to Illinois next semester, and I think she is positively wonderful
  • I made a couple of other great friends
  • I got to know Pete a lot better, and couldn’t have asked for a better friend from back home to start my time out here with.
  • I realized that ‘lonely’ is really no more then a state of mind, or a phone call away from being gone

    • And some other things that were less then unexpected that happened good and bad

  • I started my co-op, and liked it a lot
  • The people I work with are cool
  • I seem to be doing OK, and most the people like me here
  • I finally bought a better computer
  • As most of you know how I talk about systems, it isn’t the one I want to build, but a laptop instead. 😛
  • I was told that I most likely won’t be asked back for a second term or a full time position unless my grades improve significantly…this was about when I started the job
  • Some of my friends were not able to come out as originally planned
  • I planned a great trip back with a big Vegas stop and some stops at other friends places throughout the country, complete with some people comming that I didn’t expect to come
  • I planned a great next semster, and I’ve purchased season tickets for the Bears who are playing at my college stadium this semster year….Yeah Buddy
  • Plans for our “Phi Beta Nu” house are going great
  • I hooked back up w/ an old friend who is living in Pheonix now, and we had a good time partying
  • I turned 21, and got very very drunk, but I payed for it, and I think it was important to do that for my birthday
  • And a slew of other stuff that was just all around good

    • So, I’m looking to the year ahead, and since this post is already very long, I will post some goals as I come up with them tomorrow or later today. Thanks for reading about my recent life, and sorry this is soo darned long.

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