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Boston was pretty awesome today - except for when I fucked up plans with Jay (which got fixed)…

I was able to hang out with Morgan! We went to a bar and grill for lunch and saw the new National Treasure movie (overall, the movie was alright).

I also got to see Jay - after a serious snafu that I feel really bad about! Next time I will be sure to do a better job of communication with everyone when we try to meet up!

Again - I’ll write more about the whole Boston trip - but not until I get back to Rochester (Jan 1st).

Tomorrow will be a blast I hope… First Night in Boston!

friends, life, travel

So, I will write a full Boston trip entry when I get home - with pictures and everything… but here is what happened today!

We left Rochester around midnight. The drive took about 6 hours and was actually a lot of fun listening to music and just shooting the shit with Geoff and Brian. The Garmin GPS was a life saver since 90 was closed at one point due to downed powerlines! The GPS fixed us up and got us farther along with no trouble. Woo!

Anyway, we got in a little after 6. We stopped and got some breakfast. We were able to check in super early too! So we all took a nap before heading to the Samuel Adams Brewery tour. The tour was amazing - I’ll write more about it later.. but simply amazing! I highly recommend it.

We spent the rest of the evening running around just exploring the city. More stories later - time to relax!

booze, travel

Another silly little comic… XKCD style (because I still can’t draw!)

comic

I got home from Buffalo Wild Wings tonight in an, amused mood, to say the least. Sure, I was a little tipsy from the beer, and sure, it was past 2am and I was beginning to get a little lethargic. However, something interesting happened tonight… I finally got up the courage to talk to a waitress I had a class with years ago. Don’t shun me yet, I really am not that creepy. I told her she looked familiar, she replied that I looked familiar as well, and we eventually struck up conversation about it. Yes, I knew exactly how I knew her, but I couldn’t come out and say it - that would be … awkward - but I was able to maintain nice chatting for a while. By the end of the night, we had determined that it was the class that we were in together. Ok cool. Not much of a story though right? Right.

Yes, I facebooked the waitress, and her status was engaged (I was a bit sad, but whatever). However, Discussion about tonight sparked an interesting conversation with a friend. My friend is a great guy, but he is jaded. He says it is just real life that caused him to be this way, but he brought up a good point.

Girls today aren’t what girls were when we were growing up.

Well, of course there is normal cultural change, but, my friend argues that most women are (paraphrasing) loose, crazy, cheaters, bitches, unwilling to have true relationships, self-serving, slutty, (and he goes on..). Well, I wasn’t quite ready to swallow that. I have lots of female friends that don’t fall into any of those categories.

Well. Several.

Ok, Ok… a couple.

I am not kidding. I tried to think about all the girls I am friends with… and to be honest I can count on my hand the ones that do not fit into ANY of those categories, or haven’t since I’ve known them. Why is this?

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booze, life, relationships

What an hour to still be awake. Here comes the stream of consciousness

I kind of have to look at this past week and describe it as one stupid event after another. I put my foot in my mouth several times, I upset my best friend, Had other friends stop talking to me all together, and of course, I got even more behind on all my classwork.

However, I also used this week to try to really continue with my ‘reinvention‘. I was notably more outgoing at no voice zone. I also forced myself to just talk to people. Sure, all of the things I did may have caused some of the undesirable consequences mentioned before, but… it was worth it?

I find I haven’t been able to sleep lately. I need to listen to music to lull me to sleep - and it has never been that way before. Not totally sure if this will get better when break hits at the end of the week.

Speaking of. Is it Friday yet?

I have been programming in JAVA again as of late. My XML class project seems interesting, and in my excitement I have been putting that assignment on the top of my queue…. much to the dismay of my other courses (if they cared?). I wrote a pretty nifty drag tool. Maybe if I get some time when its not so late to post the logic behind it.. I will.

I think I may withdraw from my Beers of the World class right before the last day to withdraw… only so I can spend more time on other homework than it… because seriously, even an hour of working on homework for a class that is of no credit value to me as a grad student is silly when I have hours of other work to do.

I’ve been listening to music I haven’t listened to in a while, including Lucky Boys Confusion, Bon Jovi and Shades Apart.

I think I need to leave Rochester. I already know I am going to Boston over the break to work on TAP, but I really don’t know if that will quench my thirst. It might be time to throw a dart at a map and just do it.

I need to meet someone new that intrigues me.

I also need to sleep. So, here goes attempt 2.

booze, coding, life, rambling

I have decided, it is time to reinvent myself. No, I am not going to be any different then my friends know me. In fact, I will be more like me than ever before. I am just going to make sure I stay that way.

Goals

1. Look my best, smell my best, and be my best. Always.
2. Don’t be intimidated by Women
3. Be myself… around everyone.

It’s been a long time coming, but maybe this will be what I need to do to get me out of my recent funk. I will force myself to work out every day. If I can’t get to the gym (since I usually can’t), I will at very least do push-ups or sit-ups when I wake up. I will start wearing cologne more. I will dress so I look good, every day I can.

I will not be afraid to blow it around a pretty girl, I will act myself, if I crash and burn… so be it. It never bothered me before RIT, why should it bother me now?

Most importantly, I will be myself. I always put up a slightly different facade around different people… it is time to tear that down.

This moment marks the start of my reinvention. My reinvention, to the way I used to be.

life, relationships

A strange thing. I sit here on a Saturday evening getting ready to go out, after accomplishing a lot of work during the day. Of course, the major problem is that the work that I did today, was not what I should have been working on.

Week 1 of the winter quarter at RIT just ended, and I am already behind on my courses. Crazy huh? I have a full course load this quarter, including an independent study. This is putting me in to high gear right from the beginning. So, this weekend, I should be working on all of my course work.

Yeah, Right.

I spent today running errands. For the first time in about a month I actually went grocery shopping. When I got home, I did laundry. While that was happening, I cleaned my room. Yes. I cleaned my room. Wow.

So, now I am planning to head out for a little bit. Even more work not getting done… but I got a lot of other things done! Including putting my resume online, as well as starting work on my projects page. Maybe tomorrow I’ll work on what I should.

education, life

Wow.

It’s only been a couple days, but I am already feeling the heat from classes again. Generally speaking, each class isn’t too bad from a coursework perspective (except project management, which is my first, and likely last, online class). However, the problem I have is I have a lot more on my plate then I really should. Working as a Tutor, TA, Lab Instructor is 20 hours of work. Add to this, the ‘16 hours’ I am supposed to dedicate to each graduate course (taken from my project management syllabus), times 3 courses, will give me 48 hours of coursework. Add to this, I need to finish my independent study which will take… many… hours of work, but for the sake of doing fun math, lets assume it will be 8 hours a week. 76 hours a week is what I am ‘expected’ to perform. Lets not even talk about my side projects!

That’s not that bad. Right?

education, life, tutoring