A year ago.

A year ago.  hmm!  interesting things on the horizon now. ;)

Faustian Bargain or "...what would you do for a Klondike bar...?"

Back blogging again, yes yes. I'm sitting at Ms. Calloway's house after having my flight get cancelled until tomorrow. I was supposed to be back in Houston on Sunday night, but happily I got caught out here. It's clarified some things.

Universities jump on iTunes...word?

Here's to another university that's jumped on the iTunes bandwagon...Stanford University. I see this type of thing coming to my school soon. Stay iTuned.

"I can't read this crap, so how am I supposed to accomplish anything else?"

I want to change the way technology documentation is produced and used. Honestly, I want to make it more effective. Here's to leading the way. ::Kanpai!!::

Brainstorm take me away from the norm.

I couldn't sleep this morning after having a million thoughts in 5 seconds, so I got up around 645am. Lo and behold, my friends are seriously predictable (especially on their off days! lol), so I got a phone call around 730am from Rae. On that tip, I was reminded of 311, so I went and got a bunch of their stuff of iTunes to start the day.

Quite excellent. Amber is the color of your energy!

Moshi. Moshi.

Yeah, so one of the best parts of being back at home is access to a vehicle. I stole the car today and went for a spin on the other side of town--out of the county, basically--and discovered this nice neighborhood in Harnett County on a golf course. They've got tennis courts, too! I'll probably be indulging in more tennis next semester thanks to finding a tennis partner, so I'll have to sharpen up this summer in Texas.

I sent off my acceptance of the HP offer today. w00t!

Since I've been out of school, I've actually been productive. I've gone through this stack of AJAX books that I have, so now I'm working through Agile Web Development with Rails. I'm building this stock ticker thingie that's not quite a stock ticker. lol. I know. Bad description, but I can already see it in my head, so I'm great!

w00t!

Writing of epiphanic proportions...or that looks good on paper!

Yeah, I'm back in NC now. Yes, it's almost a thank God situation. I was enjoying this semester in DC socially, but academically--I'm shot. Computer science pissed me off more than I could enjoy it, so I found myself skipping class and programming and reading in my room. Needless to say, my grades showed it.

I can say I'm pretty much disappointed in almost every class this semester. Or maybe it's me...who knows. I've read some tasty books this semester though. Here's a smattering: The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra, The Venture Cafe by Teresa Esser, The Question of Happiness by Tal Ben-Shahar, Getting Real by 37Signals, Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas along with David Heinemeier Hansson, and a stack of other books. I'd say I was productive this semester intellectually still.

This summer I got hired at HP (told you I was productive this semester...I got a job!), so in a few weeks, if all still goes according to plan, I'll be heading out to Houston, TX. w00t!

On top of that, next semester I'll be working as the online editor at The Hilltop, so naturally, my writing bug has bitten me--HARD. I've churned out a lot of content lately (it'll be posted here in time), been reading my ass off (I'm getting glasses later this summer), and I've got stacks of papers (notepads, napkins, etc.) with writing ideas. And, it all sounds quite excellent. It looks good on paper. My Pentel is my friend.

I've also made the decision to attend gradschool once I graduate. I know I want to focus on the web with my work in gradschool, but we'll see what happens. lol.