Well with a usual Catlinesque flair I’m at the house at 11:45 pm, I’m working on my final report for my independent study, and I have to be at home and lucid at 10 am tomorrow. Home is two and a half hours away, and tomorrow is a special concert that my brother is in, with two old friends of my Moms, and my Mom. Fortunately most of my stuff went home with my youngest brother (David, a lot of you don’t know him, but without him our initials wouldn’t spell “BAD”) earlier today. I still have my computer, stereo, and half of my desk in my room (the other half is the hutch, and it left with David) only have a little conclusion part to write for this paper, maybe about two more paragraphs. All the tables and diagrams are done, I got that going for me, which is nice. I went out for a little while, ate some dinner at the office, had three or four beers, which is great for writing papers (minus the spelling errors and typos produced, God bless Microsoft Words auto-correct feature). Usually three or four beers is the magic number for the words to flow easily onto the paper.
There are few down sides to all this though. One is that I had a pretty big fight with my Mom a while back, and I have to deal with it while I’m home now. I sent her a pretty mean email with a whole bunch of stuff that I think she does really wrong, as well as some stuff that the rest of my family does wrong. I was pretty pissed when I wrote it, and it was in response to some stuff she said, but what I said was meaner I guess. Anyway, David brought it up today when he was here, apparently he read it. That annoys me, I don’t care that he heard some of the nasty stuff I said about him in there, but I do care that he heard it through an email to my Mom. This is part of the problem. She doesn’t like it when Lauren and I vent online, but she can let anyone she wants read emails I send HER privately. But whatever….and she says I’m the manipulative one. Well, at least this stuff is out in the open, and we’re going to talk about it. Which isn’t going to do any good because both of us suck at listening. Which is the problem, mostly, because I feel like she talks at me, instead of to me. And is too busy thinking how to respond instead of trying to understand what I say and how it applies to her life. Annoying when someone can’t win an argument without resulting to the “your 23 and you still know everything” line.
Other than that, I have to re-work my final paper for senior design, which I found out last night. And it is due by noon Monday. The nice thing is that they are letting me do that because my group is within 5 points of getting an A- instead of a B+, and we sucked it up on our final paper. I had Seth proof-read it today and it turns out I forgot to finish the Abstract. That plus the grammer and typo mistakes he found might be enough for me to turn it in and get the points I need. But I’m going through and going to try to improve the formatting too. Fortunately I can work on that tomorrow with my memory key and my parents computer.
Other that that I still have to pack up the stuff I mentioned before and a few odds and ends. Mostly going to throw stuff in a bag, toss it in the back of the truck, and roll home really late tonight.
On a really good note, I bought a new battery and power cord for my laptop which work beautifully, and I gave it back to the proud new parents of Ezekiel Edward Simpson who are borrowing it until they get their computer up and running again. I’m stoked that I got the parts I needed for 35 bucks. And here I was thinking about almost scrapping it and looking at a new one. That really is a timely blessing, considering it would have cost over 100 bucks for those parts new. Now I need to see if I can find a little bigger Hard Drive for that thing since Windows XP service pack 2 is out and I don’t have enough space to install it. But that can wait.
Well, back to my Catlinesque style of finishing everything late night and at the last minute (I’ll be my Dad is still up finishing his sermon as we speak)