The LiveJournal of CCWii

When we last left our hero, his dream of getting his diploma depended on one all important final examination, some 49 minutes after that last fateful blog post. It has been some 4 1/2 months since that fateful day. What has become of our scrappy hero? Was his dream realized? Did he fail miserably and reach his mental tipping point? The answers to that and more coming up.........


Right now!

Yeah I passed that test. In fact I got 100 on it. My final grade in the class was 97. So, yeah, I just barely passed that class. It was enough to appease the University of Hartford enough that they reluctantly granted me my diploma. I has a diploma!! W00t!!!!123

Now that I have that out the way (finally), I now have a new problem to deal with:

SEARING UNEMPLOYMENT!!

I can't get a job to save my life. It sucks BALLS. But I'm trying to make the best of things at the moment. All this downtime and a series of events have caused a possible shift in career direction. Originally I was looking to gain some experience in motion graphics design, but I find myself moving towards web design. It's the weirdest thing too, especially after the way I've shunned programming from my life last year. It all started in January when my friend CJ asked me to help him start up a website for a writing community he wanted to start up. Since then I've set up the content for his website so people will be able to interact and communicate with each other, and make a cool logo for it. All I need to do now is make a sexy looking shell for the website and it will be good to go. I have also thrown together a website for another friend for his music group. I'm currently planning out a website for another friend who is starting an interactive online magazine about acupuncture. This one I'm really excited about. This one is really going to test me in a number of aspects, since I'm not only going to be dealing with the web aspect, i'll be directly involved with ALL aspects of design in this project (logos, typography, layout, all the good stuff). On top of that, i'll be working with Flash, which has been my number one enemy for the longest time. This is going to be an interesting and very fulfilling next few months.

I'll be busy with those projects, and busy moving around for the next few weekends. This weekend i'll be visiting my friend Will and his fiancée Vee to hang out for a few days. I'm going to be in their wedding party, and i'll be singing at their wedding as well, so that's going to be a definite good time. The weekend after (hopefully) i'll be in Hartford visiting people and partying like I'm still in school w00000 PARTAAAAYYYY! :-D The following week is Will's bachelor party! Oh my, the debauchery! XD

Anyway, that's what has been going on these days, and now I should go to bed. Happy Easter folks!

I've been waiting for this moment for such a long time. At one point I didn't think I would make it. Actually at many points in time I thought about throwing in the towel. But whether it be divine intervention, people who never gave up on me, or absolute stubbornness (I consider a mixture of the three), I've made it to the final paragraph of the final chapter of the unabridged novel that has been my college life. I'm so excited right now, but pretty contained at the moment, I'm trying to stay calm for this final exam, making sure not to freak out beforehand. I'll save that for when I actually get the test. Maybe I'll just skip the whole nervous part altogether. Well, just wanted to get this post out of the way before I head towards my destiny.


T minus 43 minutes.

Well, my laptop is off to HP to get repaired. It took me some time to actually send it off because I didn't want to let it go. There is a strong chance that I will be without it for up to two weeks, so I'm pretty bummed about it. I thought I'd be alright since I have my mother's desktop to keep me from going completely insane, but not the case as it turns out. Her computer is slow as FUCK. It has a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. The processor is registering at 994 MHz. I knew I wouldn't be able to do any sort of graphics work on it, which I can live with, but Reason keeps crashing on it, and it's pissing me off. So no music creation for two weeks, which puts a damper on my plan to finish a couple of songs I was working on before the year was out. What sucks even more is the fact that I came up with 4 ideas for songs this week alone. No idea what I'm going to do about that.

But in the meantime I can do other stuff, like actually work towards finishing the typography book I started reading so long ago. And then I can begin reading the typography book and CJ let me borrow. CJ also let me borrow his copy of "The Watchmen" graphic novel. I can read those in the meantime. And also concentrate more on my math class! I'm almost done with it! Only two more classes and the final on the 22nd to go! W00t! But in the meantime I'll make do with this computer...maybe I'll be able to fix it and get Reason to work! One can dream....

A couple of victories for me in the past week. Last week I had a pretty important test in my calc class. And I scored 100!! The only thing that is kind of a drag about that incredible score is the fact that it was out of 110 points. Ah well, a 100 is a 100, and it's the first 100 I've scored on a test since the 10th grade, so there. Happy Happy Joy Joy! The class is going great, and I'll be done in a month's time. W00t!

And now victory # 2. I received an email from HP stating that I am eligible for a free repair of the left hinge on my laptop. This hinge has been broken for well over a year now, and it's been a severe pain in the ass trying to open and close this laptop. It's been the only real reason I don't take my laptop out of the house...that and the fact that the battery life is shite. The downside to this is the fact that I have to send in my laptop to HP and have them repair it, which could take up to two weeks between the time I send it off and the time I get it back. That sucks the fat one, but hey, they're going to not only fix the hinge, but they're going to fix the plastic casing that houses the lcd screen since it was damaged by the broken hinge. My lappy will be good as new once again!

The reason it's going to take some time to fix is because there are quite a few people that have the same problem. I knew this from a while back because of so many people on various message boards complaining about the same problem. I figured it would just be a matter of time. HP has finally heeded all the complaints, and for that I say to HP: "Thank you, it's about friggin' time!"

Just to make sure all my important files are safe and secure, I've taken the liberty of backing up all my files. Times like these that make me glad I have two external hard drives.

Time to go to bed, it's 4am, and I have to wake up in about 3 hours.

Been awhile, yes. Lots going on? You bet. Am I going to touch upon all of them in this post? Ha, you're funny. I'll get to the main points first and then I may divulge in other stuff.

So, when we last left off, my college diploma was in limbo. With .05 grade points separating me from scholastic freedom, I returned to New York very broken and unsure of what I could do. So I said fuck it all and started looking for work. Unfortunately work did not come, and still hasn't. But behold, one day, a cousin of mine called my mother, and they somehow ended up on the subject of my degree status. As it turns out, that particular cousin and her husband are really important people in southern local colleges, so they devised a plan to talk to my school and see if they can work out something that could help me move one step closer to getting my diploma without having to go back to Hartford. A few weeks go by, my cousins and the entire computer science department of the University of Hartford somehow make a deal for me to take one last course at a local school. We all agreed that I would take Calculus I, and I chose the school pending approval from the dean of the Math Dept. I chose CUNY Medgar Evers College because it's the closest school from my house (20 minute walk close!) So all I had to do was get the ok from the dean. His response: "This course is fine. Good luck."

W00ts!

So cut to today. I'm doing well. I've gotten perfect scores on all but one quiz (9 out of 10 points on the quiz, not bad), and on the first test I got an 86! Which interestingly enough was the highest score in the class. I have two more tests and countless other quizzes to go, but As for right now *knock on wood* things are good. Yeehaw!

Hmmm, what else is going on? Ah, yes, I still have no job, so I'm sitting around at home trying to hone my skills in all things computers. I recently put up a web page for my graphics portfolio. I wrote a good portion of it in JavaScript, which is awesome sauce! And I threw in some flash video instead of random downloadable video to make things easy on those with crappy internet connections. I also put together a new animation, somthing I ended up making out of just a random idea I wanted to test out. It's pretty awesome! Go check it out: http://gfx.ccwii.net

Now that I got all that out of the way, expect (maybe) some new posts about stuff on my mind, and many rants to come! As for right now I'm in a daze, because Barack Obama is been elected our future 44th President!!! I am proud of my country, I am proud of my people, I am proud of my generation. I am just damn proud right now.


OBAMAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Feeling much better these days. Finals are over for me. I bombed my math course, so I'm going to have to take it for the third time in Summerterm. I really don't want to, but I have to. Plus it also gives me some time to catch up with Connecticut and STN people one last time before I head back to Brooklyn. I have some unfinished work to do for STN, and this gives me an opportunity to get that done. I'll also have the opportunity to head over to Career Services to get some job hunting advice. On top of all that, I have a credit in my school financial account that, which is enough to cover the cost of my class and housing for six weeks. Not to mention I may also have a job for those six weeks! Maybe, just maybe, God does love me after all. So with all the bad, there is plenty of good. Someone once said that you can't have good without the bad. That person was absolutely right, and I'm thankful for both.

Moving on to something completely different, things are still pretty stagnant on the female front. My luck has been pretty ass in this subject for a while, and it's gotten me pretty down a lot this semester (if you haven't already noticed), but what can you do. Not being able to have who you want blows. I realize that I still have it pretty bad for this person, and she probably knows this as well. I'm slowly trying to learn to accept the fact that maybe it just wasn't meant to be. It might take a little while longer. Ah well, there's a reason why we have opposable thumbs.




Hah ah ah haa, inappropriate!

...I would. I've been so numbed by this semester that I can't cry anymore. I can't even force it out. I'm so stressed out right now I could use several good cries. Instead I lay in my bed trying to force myself out of it in only partial success. I have so much work ahead of me from now and the end of the semester. Trying to catch up on work with one class only to get behind in others. And my situation from the previous post, though better, still weighs on me. I don't know what to do anymore.


I'm a sad panda.

if i didn't have this anger i'd be everything you're looking for
i'll pretend it didn't kill me when my heart is laying on the floor
it doesn't take a lot to cut me down to size
it doesn't take that much to leave tears in these eyes
back to the start and when will it all end?
(maybe i can get it figured out)
back to the start and when will it all end?
(cause these feelings i can do without)

if your daddy didn't leave you would you still be so afraid of me?
and when other people see you do they see the you you try to be?
it doesn't take a lot to cut you down to size
it doesn't take that much to leave tears in your eyes
back to the start and when will it all end?
(maybe you can get it figured out)
back to the start and when will it all end?
(cause these feelings you could do without)
back to the start and when will it all end?
(maybe i can get it figured out)
back to the start and when will it all...end?

if i didn't have this anger i'd be everything you're looking for

I don't know, for some reason I've definitely been feeling the first verse of this song. I've never really had a song I could relate to or have just hit me the way this song does. It's a bit comforting.

Life...well, life is kinda weird right now. Classes are going as planned I guess. Just trying to hold on long enough to graduate. I think I really need to get out of this place. With all the good things that have come from this school, mainly all the people I have met here and the friendships I've forged herein, but I find myself constantly fighting myself in a constant internal struggle. Mainly fighting in my head about why I'm still here, why I can't do better in my classes no matter how hard I try, and why my luck in terms of finding a girlfriend has been absolute shit in a handbasket these last four years. I think the mixture of these three has been eating at me these last few months.

Saturday morning I woke up and I felt so depressed, I could have broke into a flood of tears for no reason at any moment. It was really fucking scary, I had never felt that way before. It was almost like a bipolar episode. If it weren't for the fact that a friend of mine was coming to pick me up and hang out later that day, I don't know what would have happened. The fact that I live in a single would not have helped matters. This room has been my fortress of solitude more than a home this entire year.

I think the main thing that has been weighing the heaviest on me as of late is the whole no girlfriend deal. As years have progressed I've noticed myself having more and more trouble finding those of the opposite sex I can relate to. Maybe it's because I'm really picky about who I want to get to know and be close to. Well, if my track record serves me right, my filtering system sucks ass. I've been most afraid of having another Carla on my hands. I told her how I felt about her, then shortly thereafter because of a strange series of events our friendship came to an extreme screeching halt. Nah, more like a brick wall in the road I didn't see coming because I was busy talking on the phone. So far, the only females I seem to be attracted to are ones that are taken, ones that are mentally unstable, and ones that have very low standards (read: enjoy the company of the human equivalent of baboons.) As of late, a strange random mix of the three. I just feel like I can't win. Maybe I should be like one of those asshole baboons to get attention. Oh, wait...I actually care about people's feelings. Should I just stop caring? Somebody tell me something.

Now that I have properly ranted, maybe I can get some work done.

This post is rated L for LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG.

I think I should update more, I'm finding myself losing larger and larger tracks of time. December doesn't seem that long ago. Hopefully I'm not the only one that feels that way.

Lets see. School's been kinda iffy for me, my math class has me in a tight spot at the moment. Everything else is going swimmingly though. Even my Software Development class, even though one of my team members suffers from a severe case of About-To-Get-His-Ass-Kicked-For-Being-Lazy-itis, and the professor works really hard on not teaching us anything.

The main thing keeping my sane are my friends and STN. Having a chance to get to know all the people I've met over this and the past semester has helped make things easier on me. The hardest thing about this extra year in school was the fact that I had to continue through school without a good 70% of people I've known for a good 3-4 years. But fortunately for me, of all the things I have trouble with, making friends is not one of them. I've made new friends and solidified friendships with others. It's a good thing.

As for STN, I've managed to make quite a name for myself. I've gone from graphics artist to 3D and Motion Graphics artist. Over the winter break I began learning how to use 3D Studio Max and Adobe After Effects. In about three weeks I managed to become good enough to try to fake knowing what I was doing. By the middle of February, I was the man at working those two programs. I started showing the Graphics Director a few things I was working on after the break. They weren't bad, but nothing really spectacular. But as I started getting better I started garnering attention from everyone in the organization. My first major creation for STN came in the form of a new weather segment rejoin graphic that I made at the request of Kyle, the chief engineer. My preliminary idea was done in about two days. I showed it to the Kyle, who fell in love with it instantly. I met up with him and he gave me ideas to tweak it, and so I worked on it some more in the office. By the end of the day, most of the people in STN had seen it and fell in love. That raised my status and made people realize that hey, this guy is good!

After that day, I've been called on to work on new versions of graphics that sre becoming outdated, i.e. ALL OF THEM. All of the graphics on the master tapes that we use are at least 6-7 years old. Rosemary, the chief photographer, showed me where the graphics master tapes are, and told me to review them. If there are any graphics I want to redo, then feel free to redo them. Well, it looks like I'm going to redo all of them. In the end, both myself and STN benefit from this. STN gets a nice new graphics overhaul, and I have enough work to put in my portfolio as part of my resume. Woot-tastic!

My real time to shine came during the second week of February. The 16th and 17th STN was airing Hartford Men's and Women's Basketball games live, with our sports team commentating. I saw a clip of soccer game opening that a few guys that graduated years back had made, and it was very inspiring. And then I saw the soccer open from the previous semester.......IT SUCKED ASS! Oh my goodness did it suck. I had to do something about it. I decided to place it upon myself to make a new one. After I came up with an initial idea, I storyboarded it out and submitted it to the graphics director. After I got the OK, I started working on it. Unfortunately, I only had a week to work on it, and it just so happened that it was a very busy week for me. I only had time to start messing with some ideas. I was hoping to start work on it that Wednesday, but unfortunately I spent that Wednesday trying to get basketball footage for the opening.

I started finally working on it on Thursday. I pulled an all-nighter that night into Friday afternoon. Apparently working in 3D is harder than it looks. That afternoon I had to meet with the graphics director to show her my progress. At that point in the day I had it broken down into three parts, two of which was actually rendered. One of those renders was an early render, and didn't reflect the progress I had made at that point. Fortunately what I had was enough to impress her, and she also gave me a few good tips to make it better. She asked me to show the directors board my progress as well. They were quite impressed as well. Very impressed actually. They really liked what they saw, and it was nowhere near done.

I spent the next 12 hours in the office sorting through footage and throwing everything together. By the end of the night, I had mostly everything together, I just needed to render it. I let things render overnight while I slept. I was very tired by then. The next morning everything was rendered. But I messed up one part so I had to re-render it ~_~. I just let it render again and went back to sleep for an hour. After it rendered, I put everything together in After Effects and rendered it all together. That was the quickest render at 5 minutes. I threw my clothes on and headed to the STN office to hand the finished product over to the producer and chief photog. I handed it in three hours before the show. If that wasn't cutting it close, then nothing is. We put the cold open to tape (actually there were two cold opens, one for men's, one for women's, and a rejoin), and then ran to the Sports Center to get everything ready.

The shows went off without a hitch, and all was right in the world. And everyone was floored about how well the opening came out. They damn well better have been, I spent 40+ hours straight working on that. I missed a night's sleep working on that. It was worth the not sleeping and worrying that I might not get it done in time. It just shows you how freakin' awesome I am. Builds character...or something like that. Ever since then I've been asked by various people in STN to work on graphics for them. I'll be helping out with the 15th Anniversary video putting together lower third graphics and other good stuff for it. Word. It's good to be me. I just hope my hard work can help me get a job after graduation. That would kick lots of ass.

As for right now, I'm on my spring break. I took this time to catch up on sleep, catch up with family, and catch up with doctors and dermatologists that I probably should've been visiting years back. It looks like everything checks out and I'm ok. So I shall continue to raise hell and be awesome as only I can. It's good to be me.


The end.

So, 2007 is just about over, and I haven't blogged in about two months, so I figure it's about due time for an update. So let's see...school is done for this semester. It was a semester full of disappointment and stress saved only by the two clubs that I belong to on campus keeping me sane. The beginning of November I joined the campus' television network, STN. I'm part of the graphics department, creating over the shoulder and various on screen graphics and controlling on screen graphics and animations during the live show. It's a crapload of fun and it feels good to be a part of live television, even if noone outside the campus really gets to see it. I still enjoy it. The people there are pretty cool too. 'Tis a good time.

My other group is awesome as well, my a cappella group. We went through quite a lot this semester, we lost a few major people, but that only pushed us to get stronger and more betterer. That's right, more betterer. At the end of this post, I'll put up links to our concert from November.

Right now I'm at home enjoying some much needed time off from school. I had a very awesome Christmas. I got a Zune! I can finally retire my old antique mp3 player. That should've been dead and gone a long time ago, but I wouldn't let it die. Now it can be put out to pasture. 30 gigs of good times. Also for Christmas I got a new hoodie, and a sphinx figurine straight from Egypt (care of my brother). My presents are awesome. I got my mother a long string of black and white pearls, and for my brother, Smallville Season 6 on DVD. They both enjoyed their presents. It's been great having my brother home, it's the first Christmas in three years where the whole family (mom, brother, grandmother and myself) was together. It was kindof a bittersweet Christmas in a way though. It's the last Christmas that we will have with our dog.

Our dog, Midnight, has been a part of our family since 1992. My brother and I grew up with her. I was 7 and he was 15 when we got her. she was only 4 months old. We had never seen a dog with jet black fur and a purple tongue (yep, her tongue is purple). We all have so many good memories with her, and she has been with us for so long (15 years!!!), so it's heartbreaking for all of us to see her slowly slip away. Earlier in the month she was diagnosed with cancer, stemming from a tumor inside of her mouth. It's gotten large rather quickly and it's making her weaker by the day. As of right now it's getting hard for her to even walk. Because of her present state, my family and I have decided to have her put down on Wednesday. It will be a hard day for all of us, but we will all be there around her to the end.

That's about it for right now. Got to rest up for tomorrow, gonna be a damn good time tomorrow. Wishing you all a happy new year. Phone post will probably happen sometime during that night.

So yeah, I've been busy these last... *looks at watch*...two months. But school is done for the semester, I'm still alive, and IT'S FUCKING CHRISTMAS TIME!!!1 So to all of you out there that reads this, have a Merry Christmas, and eventually I will write an actual post. There's a lot to talk about right now. But for now, I must prepare my mind and body for dinner!

So, on Friday I filled out and handed in my degree application. Monday I find out it was not approved. So kiddies, Calvin's not graduating in January! Whoopeee! *rolls eyes* According to the evaluator, my grades won't be high enough to graduate after this semester, even with best case scenario. I'm kinda sad about it in some ways. I really wanted to graduate and start anew in January, but clearly that's not going to happen. With my plans derailed (again), I have to remap my course of action. Or should I say, map it out. The good thing out of all this is that I get to hang out with the new people I've met this year for just a bit longer, I get to sing with my a cappella group longer and participate in the ICCA competition, and I get to boss people around at the Commons more. The extra learning of stuff won't be so bad either. The only real bad part is that my mother is super pissed right now. So pissed that she called my dad. My dad's not pissed at all. Mainly because he understands how difficult college can be. He's gone through similar situations in college. And apparently my sisters are having trouble in college as well grades wise. So it's good to know someone's on my side. Actually my mother is the only one not on my side. My grandmother, my aunt and uncle, my dad, they understand that this shit's not easy. I've struggled so much with school, and at many times trying to keep my fucking sanity. She should be fucking glad i'm still here trying to tough it out. My brother never made it past freshman year of college. They kicked him the fuck out. I'm not giving up on this, i've gone too far and i need to finish this. If it takes me till this May, then shit, so be it. Let my mother be mad, that's not gonna stop me. the end of the road is near. How near? About 7 months. Ah well!

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If there's anything I've learned in my bloggings, it's that I sure can make a good rant!

In the good news department, Halloween's coming up! WOO!! I'm trying to plan out my costume right now. I reckon the goth look will be my theme this year. I've checked out the Hot Topic web site for ideas, and I have a general idea of what I want to go for. It's going to kick ass! Once I pick up my check today, it's all a matter of convincing people to take me to the mall and my plan will be under way. I shall be taking pictures. Many pictures. I'm making sure people cherish this sight, because I'm not sure when or even if I'll ever do this again. Needless to say, if I can pull this off, I will turn some heads! well, here's to hoping! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a midterm to study for!

WOOOOOOOO! *crash*

...for until at least 4:30pm today. Right now I'm sitting in the sound booth of Wilde Auditorium working as the sound tech for an event that will be going on all day today. At least I got lucky, I could've been the tech that opened up, he had to be here at 5am. And I have my computer here in this hole. So I'll be fine. Maybe I'll get some music editing time in. Sweet!

Let's see, anything of interest happen in the past week. I got to see CJ, Jessie, Laura and Christian over the weekend. I got to be Scottish for a few hours. There was a Scottish festival in Goshen, CT on Saturday, and CJ, Jessie, Laura and I hung out there for a while. We saw some pretty cool events, an awesome Scottish band, and bagpipes! Sunday, CJ, Jessie and I caught up with Christian and we loitered at his place of work for a few hours. It was fun!

Classes are going pretty good right now. Last week threw me off in terms of keeping up with schoolwork, but I'm back on the trail this week. That's about it for right now. Time for music making and solitary goodness!

I have a new song posted up on my music page. It started off as a pretty simple music riff that i played around with on my monome using a program called flin. I routed the riff into Reason, and turned it into an almost 5 minute long late 90s R&B beat. I really love this one. I hope you love it too. It's called "Digitize."

http://music.ccwii.net

This past week, for lack of a better word, sucked ass. My friendship with Carla hit an unexpected and quite abrupt end on Saturday. Needless to say, I'm not in the most shining of moods right now. Not going to get into what happened (if you really want to know, drop me a comment or email and I'll tell you), but all I know is that in the end I did what I thought was right, and if that means her being mad at me for the rest of eternity, so be it. At least my conscience is clean and I can keep it moving.

Actually the "keep it moving" part has been harder to do than I thought. It's almost like four years of friendship, good times and hard times are worth toilet paper, and it's kinda hard to let go, especially the feelings I had for her. Today I feel good enough to say that I can keep going, but I just needed some time to be emo and purge some sadness. I'm quite thankful for the group that had my back in the whole incident, I'm not sure how things would've turned out without them.

And on top of that, I have another friend that's in the midst of a tough spot right now, in a situation that by comparison makes mine look like nothing, but the same way she had my back last week, I've got her back. All I hope is that in due time things will get better, for all of us. Being a sad panda is no fun.

As bad as last week's situation was, I still want to be Carla's friend, I just don't know if the feeling is mutual. A lot of things go through my mind right now: Is she ok? How is she feeling? Is she still mad? Could she still want to be friends after what happened? I dunno, I'm trying to tread lightly, trying to figure out if I should make a move or play the waiting game? Bah.

It is time for Last Week/This Week, where I recap events that happened last week, then this week. Here goes:

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Last Week

Last Saturday was a quite awesome trip to The Big E, a gigantic fair that happens every September in West Springfield, Mass. I went last year with a few friends, and I wanted to continue the good times this year. I managed to wrangle CJ, Jessie, Laura, Carla, her brother Matt, Christian, and Kristina into the fun. Good times were had. Many rides were ridden on, much food was eaten (I had to get my gigantic turkey leg, it had to be done), much beer was imbibed (not really, only three in the span of about 11 hours). Out of everyone that made it, Only Carla, Matt and myself managed to stay until closing time. Actually it was just Carla and I, Matt ran off into the abyss when he ran out of money to spend. It was fun hanging out with everyone, and it was a lot of fun with just Carla towards the end. We had about $30 in ride access cards between us, so we had to make the most of it. We got on as many rides as humanly possible, even the really tall rides that scare me since I'm afraid of heights. We managed to leave about 15 minutes before everything closed up. It was good times.

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This Week

Today was my appointment to give blood. I was convinced by Carla to give blood a couple of months ago, and I figured I'd do it again. According to the Red Cross I'm free of STDs and other various illnesses that are creepy and disgusting, so I have perfect blood for donation. This time around was smooth sailing since I'm now a member of Red Cross' blood donation services (Type O+ in case you were wondering). Carla was there to cheer me on, she can't give blood again until next year since she recently got a tattoo. After being drained a pint of blood, Carla and I celebrated by heading to Chili's and grabbing some food. Afterwards we hung out at the park before she had to head out of a few hours. We caught up again later in the day, and we were going to chill out at the park again, but it was getting really dark because of all the ominous looking clouds, so we milled around Wal-Mart a bit, then headed back to campus and hung out and chatted it up for a few hours before she had to head back home.

and now I'm here. Gonna grab some tea, listen to some Ryan Scott and hit the sack. That is all.

...I'm guessing you're wondering where those posts I promised are? Well, they're at another blog. I've been trying to decide whether or not to get rid of my LJ, I kinda like my other one better, and posting to two blogs gets annoying after a few...years. At any rate, until I come up with a decision, you all can enjoy my summer recap at the other blog. I don't feel like copying and pasting everything. I wrote a lot.

http://thoughts.ccwii.net/labels/Summer%202007.html

You Scored an A

It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes.

Actual post eventually. It takes time trying to sum up the entire summer.