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So I had an interview today for an IT Support Ass. at NIU. I think it went over okay, a little strange to interview with your current supervisor and their supervisor, I knew I couldn't bullshit anything which I know people do when they try to get jobs. This whole interview thing has had me freaked out for the last week and I am so glad it is over, now I just get to sit around and wait to see what happens.

So while sitting in this lovely interview, I was asked if I was a tree what tree would I be. I of course was like wtf, but anyways I answered an apple tree so I could drop apples on people. Chuck, just looked at me and was like are you serious? Other weirdness from the interview, I didn't have to answer a few questions because they knew the answers already or the fact I couldn't comment on my past supervisor since she was sitting in the room.

Other stuff: I bought a Wii, Chelsey and Lisa play it more than I do since I don't have much time due to work and classes. I need to get more games for that thing so I find some time to play it. If I get the job more wii playing for me!

Man living in Mt. Morris really sucks, I really need to get out of here and do it soon. I'm not sure what bothers me more about this place, the lack of things to do or that I think I live in the sticks due to all the "hickish" people who live here.

Well anyways, things are going good minus the fact I live in Mt. Moron. I have spent been spending more time in DeKalb hanging out with people which has been good since yeah there is no one at all to do things with around mt. morris. Yeah thats about it.

So I haven't posted anything in a really long time, I have been really too busy. As of this morning, as long as 467's final was okay, I finished my undergrad in computer science. So far of the grades I know, 2 A's and a B. I think I will end up with 3 A's and 2 B's.

Nothing else is really going on, I moved back home which was fun. No more dorm life, I finally got my act together and got out of there. The drive here hasn't been that bad, I have been doing it all week. So I'll be driving back and forth everyday till I can save up enough money for a car payment and rent, I so need to find a roommate.

Maybe now that I have a little more time maybe I'll start updating more often, most likely I won't.

I got in to grad school :)

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately and things are starting to scare me a little. I will graduate in May with my undergrad in CS, something people have told me would be impossible for me to do. Some things have been happening lately that have totally thrown my life way off track, but I am adjusting and dealing with it as best I can. I hope in the next month to have a newer car, well suv to be exact which will be nice.

WTF is wrong with people. I was with a group of people last night and two of them wouldn't come sit at the table with us because of who was also there, it was so childish. I mean yes I know their feelings on this and I somewhat share their view but they could have sat there and just dealt with said person like an adult would.

This weekend has been kinda boring. Went to Rockford last night followed by going to Fatty's. Today I spent all day doing 466 homework and working on the server for the class. I so can't wait for this semester to be over and then I can start my hell semester of 4 cs classes and my coms class, but at least I'll have stuff to do and I won't be sitting around trying to learn stuff that really isn't that exciting.

Something has been bothering me of late. I first off care way to much what others think of me and second I am way to nice to people, need to work on these.

So as most people who know me or have to see me on an almost everyday basis know I have blue hair at the moment. It was a cool thought and I am happy I did it but I'm sick of it already. I don't know why I am even having second thoughts about this now, maybe it is the names people are calling me (blue raz blow pop, polly pocket) or the very unexpected guest I had show up on Friday but I really started thinking this was stupid about 2 hours ago. I so can't wait for either our attempt to make it darker or for it to fade out at this moment.

Also I am sick again. I haven't figured out why I get sick so much during the school year, lack of sleep might be why but I am so used to it by now.

Nothing else is really going on. I spent most of this weekend sleeping or watching movies due to me being sick, I missed the set house trip today because of it, oh well. I downloaded the demo for bf2142 and played it a while, my visitor on Friday sparked my memory about it, well he said it was out.

To see pictures of my somewhat blue hair check these out.

Right after being dyed

4 Days later

Now I know why we never work on the weekends, it sucks.

This weekend has been a fun one. We started setting up the machines yesterday at 3, tried to get them up by the time Roo left work at 4:30 (HA like that happened). We had them up and ready to image by 5:30, so we started the image and left. Roo told us it was going to take like 8 to 10 hours on the crappy network over there to get them imaged, maybe they should spend some money and upgrade the cat3 to cat6 in that building. Well anyways went to Stanely's for pizza, so that made the night a little better.

I was supposed to be up and at work by 9 to 9:30ish but yeah I slightly overslept my alarm. About 9:45 I got there so only like 15 mins late but Chuck was there when I got there so that wasn't good, being a little late and all. For some reason not only was KT cranky today but Nate was a little too, it was tons of fun today....

So only one more day of working on the weekends. I am quite sure this will never happen again, working on the weekend sucks. Oh well we pulled off one hell of a task, 4 people setting up a lab on a weekend with a home football game.....

I really need to finish my grad application this weekend, kinda freaking over it at the moment. Studying for the GMAT and doing my normal homework and work load is going to be fun.

I think I have strep for the 3rd time this year. I woke up not feeling great and yeah got worse as the day went on. I'm supposed to be going to the game tomorrow with my dad but I am not sure what is going on.

Anyways, I started my grad school application today. It is kinda scary to think that I will be graduating in May and if I get into grad school things will be about the same but if I don't not a big deal I guess, find a job time comes around. I spent tonight hanging out with Dawn, Jason, and Phil watching HHGTG before I felt like total shit and decided I should go to sleep which is what I am heading to do right now.

The rest of the weekend is still up in the air with what to do, I figured tomorrow night will either be the 3rd Saturday in a row hanging out with the fun bunch of people or maybe I'll get smart and work on homework...

I went to lowes today and I found the coolest lamp ever.

So yeah I moved back to Douglas today, I thought I would never get done moving stuff. So I get into my room, the same room I have had for the past 4 years now and yeah the hole in the wall is still here, they never fixed it. It kinda sucks since now they are going to have to come in during the year and fix it.

Thats all I got.

One week from tomorrow I will move back into Douglas for the last time, 4 years here at NIU have flown by.

My phone died like hardcore this past week, about a hour after getting on the phone with the tech at verizon they decided to ship me a new phone but like the retards they are they shipped it to my billing address without asking first off so they sent a phone to Douglas via Fedex. Too bad no one can receive it there, so they shipped me a second one to Tim's place since it needed to be signed for and it was coming yesterday and I was going to be there. So the new one came, windows mobile had some updates since I got my phone in Feb. I spent last night unlocking all the fun stuff (bluetooth forwarding and the shit that the sprint version of the phone has working by default but verizon hates their customers so they block crap stuff). I need to work on getting phone and wifi working at the same time, found the directions for it but too lazy to mess with it yet.

Yesterday was the last day off from work I will have in a long time, not including weekends), we go back to 5 days a week Monday, one more hour of sleep per day but one more day of work. I spent yesterday helping Tim at his house like I have almost every Friday this summer. We finished up switching the outlets in the upstairs to newer outlets and I finished the coax, cat5e and cat6 wire runs and did all the punch downs. I only have to get the patch panel finished and do the runs for the basement and his whole house will be wired, he is getting one hell of a deal on this, $20 and a cake shake - it gave me something to do with my days off.

I woke up this morning remembering it was my dad's b-day so I had to call him up. I haven't been talking to either of my parents lately, I'm sick of their shit. I need to figure out what to get him for his b-day.

Upcoming week is going to suck, Tuesday is a bunch of people's last day of work with us so we are doing the whole Pizza thing at Stanley's which will lead us to Fatty's and yeah so not going to work the next day. I would say that I am going to miss everyone we had working with us, well minus Andy (just kidding).


Speaking of Tuesday it is payday :D
I'm picking up a fish tank next week along with
this, since I have a single and after last year I know how much shit one person can shove in one room.

Went to Six Flags yesterday w/Capt, BFG, Wes, and Lindsey. Great time, I have a massive headache from Iron Wolf but over all good time. I went on every roller coaster but Superman, V2, and Déjà Vu. Pictures are up here.

First off I am going into a fully male dominated field but that has never put me down before today. Why is it that even though I am the one who has been working with computers for as long as I can remember people still take what males say over what I say even if what I say is correct and they are way wrong? I mean my boss is female and her boss is male so I get a little respect but when I work with the guys at work they treat me like I am stupid, I know I am not the smartest person and I have never admitted to be so but it just pisses me off. Example, installing new stations, the image isn't working on some of the machine so I take two machines, same model, only difference is the hard drive and one takes the image and the other doesn't. I say well the drive is different, which shouldn't matter but it is, so I say lets just put the machines with the hard drives in that have the same drive as the working imaged machine and then put the other machines to use somewhere else. I felt like I was talking to a brick wall, but what happened when one of the guys say the same thing as me, oh that is right we had to go check machines.

I did see the funniest thing ever while returning to stevenson after work today, on the cyber terminal someone was in the bios changing things and this was like a good 40mins after restech closed so I know it wasn't one of their employees. Nice job restech, you can't even secure your shitty cyber terminals and yet people trust you with their computers, no wonders you have to have ITS lab ops install your machines in your labs.

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So I meant to post this one day last week while at work but I didn't have the time. I have made it 22 years go me. My birthday went well. Lynda brought donuts in for everyone which was cool, played some halo over lunch which I suck at but oh well, and then ended up doing the Stanley's to Fatty's trip. I would have to say overall it was a good day :)

I'm glad I bought my bike, with gas prices like they are I can go almost anywhere in Dekalb via my bike. Now if I could get my dad to sell off the truck and get a different car I would be even happier but that would be a cold day in hell before I see that happening.

Off to play either civ4 or bf2 as I recover from last night and these early mornings of getting up to feed Tim's cats.

This is what happens when I get really bored. So come the fall if anyone really wants to know where I'm at this is my week in a nutshell.


Click on the picture to see things up close, I'm to lazy to get the size right.

A few very important things I have learned this summer.
1) You must eat donuts before going to work :)
2) It is possible that I can hurt myself sitting still.
3) I need to eat food before going out.
4) I am a hazard to myself, see #2.

As posted before I am a hazard to myself. I crashed my bike the other night, no damage to the bike but I hurt my knee, then the next day doing nothing I dropped a box full of smaller boxes of staples on my foot and then later in the day I cut my leg on something. Some people I know keep telling me I need a bubble suit so I can't hurt myself, I'm starting to like this idea.

For the first time in my life I enjoy the people I hang out with, they don't make fun of me or put me down to bring themselves up. Maybe I am finally acting my age and finding people who also act their age, well most of them :)

Well off to Gameworks tonight with Tim and Rachel and some other people I don't know. It should be a good time.

I am a hazard to myself, I think everyone knows that already but I just wanted to point it out again for those who do not. While at work today I became depressed over nothing, just sitting around doing nothing made me depressed, first time in a few months that happened. So I left the lab we were working in to go back to my office and I dropped my phone, no damage but it still sucked but I did however in the process of stopping on my bike hurt myself by crashing the bike. The bike is all good, no problems at all with that but my knee is a little cut up and it will be all nice and black and blue tomorrow.

I spent most of tonight talking to Roo about splitting the cost of server space, he is really picky about some of this stuff, but he does work with servers all day so being picky is just par for the course. Roo is a funny guy too bad I work for his mom and yeah I don't think he likes me.

Nothing else is really going on. I told my parents off Monday night after dealing with their crap for the past few months, what a great time to do it too. A week before I turn 22, the day before the 4th, oh and they go to court tomorrow. I am so ready for this shit to be over, but Lynda told me it could go on for a while :(

Someone who I dislike has been sending me messages lately why I don't know, maybe they are bored and think it is fun, I guess it is payback from all the crap I did. oh well, as KT and Roo say that's the price.

Today I would have to say has been one of the longest damn days at work. Nothing worked right so we spent most of the day fixing problems that should have been fixed like a week ago but didn't pop up till today. Well anyways, I have a new understanding to why people call me a bitch, well mostly because I see myself as one now. I snapped on people today because they were being fucking loud while Wes and I were trying to work something out. I can't fucking wait for the summer to be over....


I am wondering why I even have a room in the dorms for the summer. I get up a 6am, leave for work by 6:30, go to work all day, most days go hang out with Wes and/or Tim and don't get back to Stevenson till going on 11ish. Maybe I should have thought this whole thing out more before I got a single....

Well I need sleep since 6am will be here before I know it and I don't want to be cranky like KT.