Time to talk about more things. Chowning has started her job in Nashville, and things are going well. She is working with clients directly and is probably going to have to travel some. Not as much as mikex0r or Brad, but some. MP&F is having a get together at the Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson concert in Nashville in the next few weeks. So that will be cool to go to. She hhas signed on her new place, and will be moving in there (or more importantly OUT of her parent's place) soon.
I've recently gone through the trouble of budgeting this summer, only to learn today that I'll be continuing the same monthly pay I did during the last semester. I'm not sure why. I was on "extended day" before, where they pay me more money for teaching more kiddies, and apparently that pay scale continues through the summer???!!! Fine with me. I've gone from trying to determine a budget where I don't eat food and instead ingest video games and turn them into nutrition to thinking I can bankroll some good money this summer.
That is assuming that I can not spend too much money. See, I want to implement LEGO into my cirriculum. The way to do it is through the Technic and Mindstorm toys. I'm pretty sure that I can get cobb county to foot the bill for some for school, but I want my own, and I can rationalize the 200+ purchase by stating that I need a prototype in order to write a good grant to get more. Sure . . . that's why. mikex0r will be going with me to discover mills when he gets back from Philly.
I haven't gotten as much done on the part-time job front. I'm going to go buy a CD or two tomorrow, so I'll hit up Tower and hand in my app for GameStop. I've learned that while pretty well educated, I'm really not all that desireable as a retail employee. While people want to tell me otherwise (people who say that I have a college degree, I can kill at the job), the fact is that I have no experience in retail, I don't know how to work a cash register (you take all the money out and walk away . . . right?), I'm also looking to work for only two months. What I really need is to sit on the corner with the rest of my hispanic bothers and try to get work in the mines or in the fields. At least that will pay cash.
The search for a grad school is slow at best. Losing the internet for a day didn't help. I feel bad that I'm not just telling Doc that I will take the position at ETSU, but there are two big questionmarks. First: I don't want to live in Johnson City, TN. It is too far away from Chowning, and it isn't a City (although it does have an interstate at least). Second, I'm not sure what good this PhD will do for me aside from learning more cool stuff. Don't get me wrong, I like learning cool shit, but aside from a handful of jobs with the USOC and its governing bodies, I think my options are to teach in college. But maybe that is good?? Although I don't like the teaching model in college, I would get to do the research that I want to do . . . now if only I could figure out what research I want to do.
The one front is that going well is video games, or so I think. Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap is done; at least in its first iteration. In order to 100% the game I would have to go through it a second time, and without my database (lost access when my drive crashed so if anyone has one gimme a hand) I don't get the gratification of updating a database that I only I look at anyway (sigh). I'm starting Majora's Mask as soon as I can get Jeremy to come home before 10 pm (which I think will be after he conference he's gearing up for). I've also been pushing through Musashi: Samurai Legend. There will be a review of this game (and probably God of War) soon. I needed a game that I could sit down and not think to play. Zelda games require thought . . .
and GT4 requires hours and hours of monotinous work in order to achieve perfection. That is what I struggled through last night, where I spend 5 hours NOT getting a gold on a singe course. Sigh. That game will take all of summer to get the liscenses just like last time. And lets not even talk about 100%. I still haven't gotten 100% on the last one because of the fucking glitch. I don't know what it is about me, for some reason I always have these glitches happen with shit in my life.
There's a lot more to talk about, especially as ultimate is starting tonight. I'll come back and post more for all you readers out there.
M
I've recently gone through the trouble of budgeting this summer, only to learn today that I'll be continuing the same monthly pay I did during the last semester. I'm not sure why. I was on "extended day" before, where they pay me more money for teaching more kiddies, and apparently that pay scale continues through the summer???!!! Fine with me. I've gone from trying to determine a budget where I don't eat food and instead ingest video games and turn them into nutrition to thinking I can bankroll some good money this summer.
That is assuming that I can not spend too much money. See, I want to implement LEGO into my cirriculum. The way to do it is through the Technic and Mindstorm toys. I'm pretty sure that I can get cobb county to foot the bill for some for school, but I want my own, and I can rationalize the 200+ purchase by stating that I need a prototype in order to write a good grant to get more. Sure . . . that's why. mikex0r will be going with me to discover mills when he gets back from Philly.
I haven't gotten as much done on the part-time job front. I'm going to go buy a CD or two tomorrow, so I'll hit up Tower and hand in my app for GameStop. I've learned that while pretty well educated, I'm really not all that desireable as a retail employee. While people want to tell me otherwise (people who say that I have a college degree, I can kill at the job), the fact is that I have no experience in retail, I don't know how to work a cash register (you take all the money out and walk away . . . right?), I'm also looking to work for only two months. What I really need is to sit on the corner with the rest of my hispanic bothers and try to get work in the mines or in the fields. At least that will pay cash.
The search for a grad school is slow at best. Losing the internet for a day didn't help. I feel bad that I'm not just telling Doc that I will take the position at ETSU, but there are two big questionmarks. First: I don't want to live in Johnson City, TN. It is too far away from Chowning, and it isn't a City (although it does have an interstate at least). Second, I'm not sure what good this PhD will do for me aside from learning more cool stuff. Don't get me wrong, I like learning cool shit, but aside from a handful of jobs with the USOC and its governing bodies, I think my options are to teach in college. But maybe that is good?? Although I don't like the teaching model in college, I would get to do the research that I want to do . . . now if only I could figure out what research I want to do.
The one front is that going well is video games, or so I think. Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap is done; at least in its first iteration. In order to 100% the game I would have to go through it a second time, and without my database (lost access when my drive crashed so if anyone has one gimme a hand) I don't get the gratification of updating a database that I only I look at anyway (sigh). I'm starting Majora's Mask as soon as I can get Jeremy to come home before 10 pm (which I think will be after he conference he's gearing up for). I've also been pushing through Musashi: Samurai Legend. There will be a review of this game (and probably God of War) soon. I needed a game that I could sit down and not think to play. Zelda games require thought . . .
and GT4 requires hours and hours of monotinous work in order to achieve perfection. That is what I struggled through last night, where I spend 5 hours NOT getting a gold on a singe course. Sigh. That game will take all of summer to get the liscenses just like last time. And lets not even talk about 100%. I still haven't gotten 100% on the last one because of the fucking glitch. I don't know what it is about me, for some reason I always have these glitches happen with shit in my life.
There's a lot more to talk about, especially as ultimate is starting tonight. I'll come back and post more for all you readers out there.
M
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