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well, i made it through school. on saturday, december 12, 2009 i graduated college with my b.s. in electrical engineering. whoo!

now i need to get my grad school apps together, study for the gre, and find a job. i did recently find a new apartment so i need to start packing too. i am also still working on my senior design project. i want it to be up and running. i also have a few projects in mind that i would like to work on. those can come at a later date though.

when this is all said and done, or maybe at some point in the meantime i will catch up on my comic books, video games, and tv shows/movies. honestly, i don’t think there will be a point where i will become too bored. i am SO BEHIND on everything. i visited my local comic shop last week and picked up the stack of comics that had been in my pull list for the last 6 weeks. yikes. i missed a lot of good stuff. i’m kind of bummed that straczynski wont be doing thor anymore.

i also decided it was time to finally sit down and watch all of boogiepop phantom. i have had the box set for about 6 years now and have never watched all 12 episodes. it’s time. also, a lot of my books will be going into storage shortly so i thought it necessary to pull out a few and have lying around so i can actually get around to reading them. yeah!

on the videogame front. i recently purchased a wii. so basically i have to catch up on all the good games that came out for it since launch. i have yet ot beat any of the ps3 games i own…and i just bought a few more. i started dragon age: origins on the xbox 360 but had to stop when school started getting intense again, so i do wan to finish that up…and i got an early copy of bayonetta. whoo! and then the slew of psp and ds games that keep coming out. man, oh man.

i should be polishing up my resume but i feel kind of sick and out of it. i should probably go to bed. i think i’ll just read a few comics first. i almost forgot they were sitting in a pile.

(and it being the weekend) is having an excuse to not do anything productive. this morning i went and took the practice gre exam and completely bombed. stupid me didn’t have any breakfast, just coffee. the only food i brought with me was a banana, and that sure as hell wasn’t enough to get me through until well past noon. needless to say, throughout the test i got shaky and fuzzy headed and slightly sick. :\

after the practice gre, went out to the ramen shop and inhaled a bowl of kimchee ramen and some delicious gyoza. it had been too long since visiting the ramen shop. after ramen came tokyo! on blu-ray and some much needed ginger/lemon/honey infusion for my throat. all in all, i have to say tokyo! was…ok. the second film just about ruined it for me. all the dialogue in the language nobody understood without subtitles….wtf. seriously, wtf. it was many many minutes of painful sitting.

so after movie, i took a nap. woke up and ate more noodles…took a shower…and then i thought i would watch another movie, and then decided against it. thought i would catch up on season 3 of 30 rock…but then thought perhaps i would like to finish reading the first wreauththu book but then got sidetracked by the internet.

while on the internet i came to realize scribblenauts had been leaked onto the interwebs. my god…the game is great. the tutorial was kind of slow and long and i thought the rest of the game would follow in the same fashion. boy was i wrong. this game is FUN. FUUUUUUN. and i made a cthulhu! only it attacked me and i died, so i ended up riding a unicorn instead.

on sunday i went to the denver public library to do some research on autonomous robots. i rolled up around 11 or so and then discovered it didn’t actually open until 1 p.m. boo. so then i listened to the seventh (and last) harry potter audiobook and waited for a bit.

once the library opened i rushed to the online catalog and began perusing the robot building/programming shelves and plucked six or seven (large) books and waddled back to a desk by the window. it was a gorgeous day out and i wanted to pretend i could enjoy it like everyone else on the other side of the glass. once i had settled in with my laptop out to take notes and started flipping through the books, a voice came over the intercom system in the library letting all the dpl patrons know the denver gay men’s chorus would be doing their annual singing-dealie. i thought, how fun! little did i know they would be singing in the space RIGHT BELOW where i sat. and since i had so much crap everywhere already, i didn’t really want to move. and i didn’t think the concert would be long anyway…it was about an hour, but it was really hard to concentrate during that hour. :\

today i went to the jefferson county library out in lakewood. i used to live over in the area, which is how i found it, and it is one of my favorites. i figured since i would be in golden a little earlier in the day i could stop off at the library to finish up one of my electronics projects and be on my merry way. i found a nice little cube in the back (which, btw, was really big and wide with it’s own set of electrical outlets) and i settled in. once again, little did i know that on the other side of my cube (and sharing one of three walls) was a woman using a typewriter. yeah, a god damn fucking typewriter. so as i tried to run the calculations for my current source project, all i could hear was…clack, clack, click, clak, whhzzzzzzt, ding! i was at the library for a couple of hours and the typewriter did not stop the entire time. i wonder if the woman was working out chapter 5-12 of her god damn memoir. >:\ so irritating. finally, after debating with myself for twenty minutes i decided to give up and as i was packing the woman got all of her things and walked away. *facepalm*grumble*grumble*

what the eff, eh? so my goal is to finish reading stranger in a strange land tonight, and i’m getting close…if not tonight then definitely by tomorrow. i also finished the last harry potter book today *sob* so i figured i should pick up another book. even though i have a dozen or so that i’ve been ‘meaning to read’ but since i was at the library already, what they hell.

for the better part of this decade, people keep asking me if i have read houes of leaves and when i tell them no, they sound shocked and amazed and tell me to go read it at once. i’ve resisted up to this point, but i checked to see if they had it, because most times when i check the library its always checked out, and to my surprise…there it was. i went to go check the damn book out and i am no longer in the jeffco system. i lied to the 90 year old librarian and gave him a fake address and he let me check out the book. i’ll definitely return it…but it was a bit of a pain to get it. oops. i totally felt my face flush too as i told him i lived nearby but i couldn’t remember my zip code. HAH!

the book seems really long, so i may end up buying a copy to finish at my leisure. as for audiobooks, i think i may start on american gods by neil gaiman next. i also want to see what all the fuss around twilight series is all about, but i’ll get around to that later. i have to admit, i did start watching the movie and would have probably watched the entire thing if it hadn’t been for the fact that i had to leave.

and now, back to reading!