I’m very excited about this school!
After going to the orientation with a friend, I was really impressed by the quality of the work the students produced, the general atmosphere of the place, and what they offered. Now I have to look in to handleing the price tag with the place (it is an art school…a very expensive one….yikes.)
OK!
Well, after slaving away at the JC for a year and looking all ove the place, I’ve decided to check out this school in San Fransisco. The Art Institute International at San Fransisco. They offer a B.S. in Multimeadia and Web Design. I’m gonna check this out.
I’m really sick of this…jeff do something about this stupid site
Well, so am I.
I created this site with the original aim to share my journal with people. Then I made it so people could comment on it. Then I added Darrin, Nick and Javier to the line up – pictures after that. The whole point was to create a place people could come and share their lives at in a friendly way.
But this is not what I have ended up with.
Instead, this site has been used as a means by which people let out their most angry cries and fiercest roars. This site has spurred arguments, fights, and loss of friendship. This place has made being enemies a normal thing. This site has become a haven for anyone to simply blurt out “You Fucking Suck!!!”
However, I am not alone in the blame for this.
Every single person who has ever posted one foul word (yes, including me) is responsible for turning what could have been a nice, fun website into a stinking, rotting vehicle of hatred.
So what?
So, I have finally made the decision to take this site down. During this project’s lifetime (about 2.5 months) this site has grossed over 100,000 hits – for me this marks a milestone in my website achievements, even if it was such a terrible way to make that mark. I’m really sad to see that it has come to this and that it came out this way, but I feel that this site has been sent into a downward spiral that is completely unsalvageable.
The site as it stands the day I take it down will remain as it is in an archival state.
A new project will replace this site in the weeks following.
Any comments should be posted here.
Well I have done my good samaritan act for….uhm, well I think I need to be catching up on them. Anyway, I came home to night after seeing about half of “Queen of the Damned” to find one of the neighbors houses tp’d. Anyway, it was kinda wet out side, so I picked up what I could get, and I got most the big stuff, left some stuff stuck to the sidewalk though. One of the neighbors saw me picking it up through their window, and I saw them seeing me. I just hope they know that I didn’t put it there…
Happyrock (finally…)
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erm – i’ve been a bit behind in that I noticed today. I was just looking it over and I went – “Woah, it’s been a week!”.
Yeah i’ve been rather busy – i think I worked the past 4 days straight and then a few before that, and then there is school and yeah. I’ve been terribly busy between just the two of those. However, despite the extreme lack of sleep I have been subjecting myself to, I’m feeling very well. I’m really liking being back at the Roxy ( I feel like I say this every ten minutes ) and today Chris said that I should be getting trained on projection today. Yay! Now basically that means a whole lot of nothing….I don’t get paid more, and I just have more reponsibility, however, it does mean that my chances of scheduling will increase once I am trained. This is a good thing seeing as I need every bloody penny I can lay my hands on!
All’s well and it’s 11:30 at night!
I love this sport.
I love just about everything about it.
I mean, I’m a computer geek – I openly admit that, and I am very proud of it, so for me physical activity is a very VERY low thing on my list of priorities. Yet, somehow I look forward to that late, hot, sweaty, padded-floor class two times a week more than just about anything else. The sport is near perfect as far as I am concerned. I’ve played soccer, and I have played baseball – the sum of my sporting experience. Now, while I played those oh so long ago, I don’t remember them being this great.
No other place I know of that after only just meeting someone you are rolling around on the floor trying to get the dominate position and win. I mean – I like the contact of the sport. I enjoy getting my hands on someone and moving them how I want them to move.
I like the “team” feel of the sport. Of course, in competition, the sport is based all on you, but after that your team is with you! I mean, you train together, and you learn together. You sweat together, and often times, you bleed together. When all is said and done, there’s that image of people, arms on shoulders, walking off in to the sunset. That’s what it’s like.
The people are friendly too – never, NOT ONCE, have I ever not liked someone in these classes. Judo people just seem to be nice – but fierce. I tell you, you walk in to class friends, you step on the mat and fight as incredibly forceful fighters struggling to take the lead, and then once it’s all said and done, you shake hands, and walk off the mat as friends – able to laugh and joke about that match – and learn from it.
Wow – i’m rambling – and sore… :-)
I started again today at the Roxy. My second time working there. I have scaled back – WAY back at the other job, pretty much quit, but will continue to do some programming for them.
It’s kinda odd being back there….i mean, it’s been almost a year and a half, but I don’t really feel like it’s been much more than yesterday that I was in the black pants, white butter-stained shirt, and black tie.
I started off bad too – i mean, I found out at 3 o’clock i was scheduled to work at 5:15…and I had a meeting at 4:30 – I somehow made it in at about 5:25, so it was ok. I had called and let them know as well.
It was scary…first day back and I was thrown into Box on a friday night – lots of customers, lots of money, and lots of craziness. It was scary cause I hadn’t done it in a long time, and I think I was expected to be able to remember everything all at once perfectly…much like it had been just yesterday. Well, I was in luck because I did fairly well. I don’t know how even I broke – never got told, but I think I was probably pretty close. Tomorrow I get to learn concession all over again. I’m glad I get to work with Jav though…at least I’ll have someone I know to answer all my stupid questions…
Other than that my day went wonderfully.
Looking back, most of my recent posts haven’t exactly been very upbeat or happy – well here’s a change of pace.
The problems with my car have somehow worked themselves out…how, I don’t know and don’t care, but there aren’t any more. Anyway, that’s all settled for a good long time now I hope.
Also, I quit my job at Internet Magic (great hosting, nice people :-) I must say, I am a sad to be leaving, but I think it’s best for me to do so. The job simply required too much of me, and I need to concentrate on my scholastic endeavors. I want to get a degree, and I could, if left un-checked, see myself getting my certificate at the JC and then just dropping out to continue full time for some web company – and that’s not a good idea. Anyway, I went for my little interview at The Roxy today because I am going to go work there again.
I’m pretty happy about this too – i mean, the roxy is pretty simple work and doesn’t require a lot of, uhm, talent to do – but that’s what i want. Something simple, something easy. I just want a job where I can work enough hours to make ends meet and get myself better situated finacially.
Oh yeah, I’m not fully gone from Internet Magic either, although I think I will be officially un-employeed from them, I will still be doing the programming for them, but it’ll be freelance work now. Which is ok by me – programming is good. Yeah.
You know…that idea that we will accomplish something great, be famous, be known for something. We all want it – that sense of having done something worth while, the knowledge that we have affected people’s lives in a positive and lasting way. I know I want it – but the problem is, I don’t know how I want to get it…
Some people want to be movie stars, some people want to cure AIDS, some people want to teach, some people want to be the President, some just want to be parents. Most people know, or at least dream, of being something to give them that aspiration of importance.
I want this same thing – but I haven’t got a clue how I want it. I want to influence people – I want to have a lasting, important effect in people’s lives that I can feel good about. I just haven’t got the foggiest clue as to how I am going to do that…if ever.
I really believe that I can be anything I want to (within reason of course – i mean, I couldn’t be a mother really.) I believe I could be a fighter pilot even though my eye sight is not 20/20. I could be a doctor, I could be a pysicist, I could be anything I really wanted to be. I don’t doubt that at all. I’ve never had trouble learning something new, and complex things take me very little time to learn (comparatively). But even with such a wide gamut of choices as to how to affect the world, I am at a loss as how to choose which one I want. Perhaps I won’t have to choose…maybe it will just come to me – pick me. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Ok – I am very happy with my site. While it’s been a breeding pool for people to let out stuff, and a lot has been gained … and lost … here, i think that it’s all been good.
I would have done it again if given the choice.
I reached 50,000 hits for the month of january on monday – I don’t want this to come across wrong, but I am proud of that. I’ve never really made something that was terribly useful to people – that was actually used. Anything that I wanted to make and use….anyway….
I am writing this post because I want to know what people think should be next. I know that “more updates” is always required – but what about other features? Would you want to be able to upload your own photos? Would you want to be able to….i don’t know, add links on the site? What would make you more interested to come here? What would make this site better serve you?
Now that that little rant is out of the way, time for a new one.
Just after I get the car out of the coolant job, the brakes need work. So i go back and get the brakes fixed, and now my ABS light is going off!! Oh yeah, and there’s this terribly grinding sound whenever i turn the steering wheel all the way left or right…some times not even all the way. I can’t believe how much a pain in the ass this car is being – seriously! How much more can it fall apart? Oh yeah, I totaly left out the ghetto mirror I have now that’s black and the car is green….oh yeah, let’s not forget the crack in my body paneling….hrm…I don’t think i’ve left anything out…please please please please let this be the end of my troubles….i’m getting to know my mechanic, Steve, far to well….sigh
Shit – I hate my friggin car. I swear, I have so much damn trouble with cars. I just don’t work well with them. I got up nice and early today (7:30) to take my car in to have the engine coolant changed, and as I was getting in I discovered my car had been side-swiped and the mirror was ripped off. Bastard didn’t even leave a “Sorry” note.
Fuck. So I take it in and ask the mechanic to also check out an odd noise coming from the tires area – I call back to the shop after having waited 3 hours to find out the coolant is done, but that my front brakes are GONE – no pads at all. So, I have to get those replaced and it’s gonna be some money that I, as always, don’t have.
Great…just great. So my car is completely undriveable cause it’s unsafe. sigh It’s the buses for me for the next few days/weeks…..woo-freakin-hoo…..
Nick is back in town to wreak just a little bit more havok.
It seems a little deception has gona on about it. Whether it was intentional or not, is yet to be told. He had stated the intent on coming down was to come for a day or two, pick up some things, relax a little, and get his haircut. General stuff. Now, he has showed up a day before he said he would be here. He was spotted outside of, you guessed it, Amy’s work. He’s come down even earlier to, no doubt, to spend some quality time with his love interest. Albeit, I see it as unrequited love, he is obsessed and overly confident it is true love between them both. Quite honestly, I have known Amy, I’ve myself been “in love” with her, and so I know what it’s like…this whole routine. I dont claim to be an expert. But I’ve seen it, and I have seen what she is like with ben. Ben is the one she loves – and i’ve never known her to truely love the way she does him. If nick can’t see that, that’s just too bad. I hope she sees it . . . it’s quite possibly one of the best things in her life.
But drama drama drama, eh?
Stupid fountaingove road cops…i hate them.
I really haven’t had a whole lot to write about recently. My life has been pretty serene. No major events, no huge deals, and all I’ve really done this week is work.
I’m not complaining though. I like this calmness, this peace. It’s nice to be able to not have so much chaos and activity. It’s given me time to relax, to ponder things, to think about things, to find wisdom. That sorta thing.
Then again, I don’t really think you can “find” wisdom. Wisdom is not knowledge in and of itself. Wisdom is possesing great amounts of useful and correct information and insight, and it is (this is the important part) the ability to communicate that knowledge so others can learn from it. That’s what wisdom is – not just knowing a lot.
I have noticed a large difference between me and a great majority of people. There seem to be two sects of thought on this subject, and I think I am in the minority amoung the people I know.
In life, everyone wants love. That’s a universal want/need. It’s just part of how we are programmed. I believe that. What kind of ‘love’ is where people split on opinions. You see, for some people it is the “I am looking for that one soul mate who will be completely happy with me and I with them, and any other relationship is/was pointless after finding that it was not my soul mate.” And then for me it’s “I do want that soul mate, I do want to find that special person, but I am not so in need of it that I am going to throw away a relationship because it’s not going to be the ‘soul mate’ i want.”
See, I figure that former type (“Gimme my soul mate now!!!”) is going to live a rather disapointed life. Look at it like this with me for a second. While they may be happy with the relationship and may have had some fun, their main goal is to find the one and only, and if that person they were with wasn’t the one and only, they aren’t going to be happy. Thus for the billions of people on this planet, they could go through soooo many before they find the soul mate that their life would just be sad.
This isn’t entirely true, i doubt it’s as harsh as I put it, but that gives you the idea. Now, I do want my soul mate some day, heck I am pretty sure I want kids too, but right now my life is just beginning! Seriously folks, I am 18 years old, I havent moved out yet, and I am only starting college. I have so much life left to live, so much to expeirence. I’m not going to sour it by being uphappy about not having my soul mate. I am not going to forfit some of the most amazing years of my life to that disappointment. All in all, i am out to have fun in my life. To live, not a little, but a lot.