Below are the 13 most recent journal entries recorded in Andrew Dooley's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
10:39 am	Waking Up It feels weird to wake up in the morning to the thought of how nice it would be if you could sleep in till your mom came to wake you up. More so when your mom traditionally wakes up before you and is about a five hour drive away from you... Current Mood: drowsy Current Music: "Bullet The Blue Sky," by U2 (Comment on this)
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
11:43 am	Under Pressure Well, it has been about 2 weeks since the last update and I really have not gotten as much done as I really should have. While I am getting enough done to get by I still haven't ordered sparring gear, done any research into grad school or the GRE, found an internship or job, or pretty much any of the major things I said I needed to get done. I have just kinda been puttering around in neutral, never really feeling the need to shift into 1st gear and beyond. This is starting to catch up to me since I am now getting homework assignments and have no real impetus to work on them. I really have not been able to think of a real solution to my slothful dilemma. It's something I have been wrestling with since at least the start of high school, maybe longer, and this habit of being lazy is easily my biggest roadblock in the way of my personal success, whatever that success might be. The only times I can get myself into action at all is when I am under pressure from some outside source, generally a homework deadline of some sorts, and even then my being productive isn't guaranteed. This does tend to suggest that I need to develop some source of constant, outside pressure to goad me on, though even this is flawed since constantly being under pressure can be as bad as doing no work at all. In the short term, though, I do think I need to develop some sort of illusionary impetus to keep me moving forward. How successful it will be, I do not know. Of course the real irony here is that I discuss creating a new check on my slothful habits when this record was originally meant to be said check. Projected Checklist for 1/11/06 - Write up paper for Writing in Anthro. - Catch up on reading in Crim Theory. - Buy the book for Zooarch (if it ever gets in at the bookstore...). - Order sparring gear. - Start looking online for jobs or internships. - Look into GRE. - Email Laural about seeing if they'll need any help when it comes time to move the stuff from the Pound Lab. - Practice Karate. - Draw. - Work on the RPG campaign situation. - Update the Journal more frequently. Current Mood: Waking Up Current Music: "Hell's Gates" off of the Guilty Gear Soundtrack (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
10:40 am	Back from the Long December Its been quite a while since the last of my banal chore-list posts, and as with most things, I really have no good reason as to why it has taken so long. Since the last post a semester has ended at UF, only to rise from the ashes of Winter Break as a glorious new Spring Semester. Hopefully this semester will turn out better than last, for while the last was certainly productive (an A, two B+'s, and a C+), it was also extremely taxing. But onto the future, time to leave the past to history! Despite it being only a week and a half into the new year I already am back into my old habits. I have not had a productive day since I returned from the break, which is only tempered by the fact that I was extremely productive over the break. As a result I have wracked up quite the list of chores and tasks. This is in addition to several new or renewed goals for the year that I would like to accomplish. And in the spirit of this accounting I think it best to begin by listing my goals. 1. Get a part time job. As usual I need money, thanks to my decision not to slave away at the Track this past summer, a decision I am only too happy to have made, despite my lack of finances. Unfortunately, as my few ill-spent days working at the movie theatre last November have taught me, I am gonna need to find a job that preferably allows me to work on homework while on the clock or otherwise is good with my hours. 2. Play major catch-up in karate. I am now two semesters behind where I really should be, meaning that some well-deserving class mates who started after me have now advanced beyond me in rank. On top of that I still lack sparring gear and the class schedule is still the same mess as last semester, with this week already seeing one class canceled and the other altered into an impromptu fight-night at a different location than normal since we are still stuck in the O'dome. That being said, even if I can't make all the classes I would like I still need to push myself more while at home. Especially when it comes to practicing my kicks. 3. Start preparing for grad-school. One of the things that I took away from last semester was that I am gonna have to get into grad-school for my field. This means I have a whole lot of work ahead of me to prepare for this, including looking for good programs, studying for and taking the GRE, and opening up lines of communications with schools I am interested in. As a side note to all this I also need to see about staying in touch with my Osteology teachers and such from last semester, something I miserable at doing. 4. Put together my RPG campaign. With Adam in semi-retirement, Mat moving out at the end of the semester, and Steve possibly leaving Gainesville for a job, the group is gonna be in desperate need of a new game. For all that I bitch and moan about the state of the game currently I feel that I am obligated to set up one of my own, to put my dice where my mouth is, if you will (No, not in the same way Ian used to). As a result I need to sit down and hammer out my FFRPG world and campaign or else start in on updating the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil to 3.5 edition. Either way I need to get this done in time for the summer at the latest. 5. Improve my fighting game skills. This is more of a current thing, and might not really last all that long, but I have the urge to feed the fighting game monkey on my back. This means practicing a lot in Street Fighter III: Third Strike and Guilty Gear X2#Reload. Part of this is a desire to have a game genre I can own at, part desire to trash Wes and his bloody friggin low-sweep/super-move combo with Ken and dust-loop combo with Sol. 6. Draw. Because of the sheer amount of web comics I read each day, I have taken on the strange half-urge to create my own web comic. Tempering this, however, are the facts that I have no story to tell, couldn't do joke-a-day (or even a week) to save my life, have no clue when it comes to setting up or running a site, the money for server space, or, most importantly, even half-way decent drawing skills. Taking in all of this I decided that the most productive of these to tackle would be the drawing portion. The plan? To use my notebook in combination with the Internet and subscription I got to Rolling Stone for Christmas to work on drawing people. Even working on it 30 minutes or so a day should help. With all this being said, it is time to start laying out the Daily List. Projected Checklist for 1/11/06 - Pay Mat for last month's cable. - Go grocery shopping. - Buy the books for Zooarch and Crim Theory. - Put gas in the van. - Start looking online for jobs. - Email Laural about seeing if they'll need any help when it comes time to move the stuff from the Pound Lab. - Practice Karate. - Download Firefox and see about setting up a tab-trawl. - Bug Adam about the GGC. - Watch Blood+ and Bleach. - Practice SF3 or GGX2. - Work on the RPG campaign situation. - Update the Journal. Current Mood: calm Current Music: "Come on Ghost," by The Pillows (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
11:43 pm	They say it's your birthday... Well, I'm 21 today. I don't really feel 21, but then I suppose one never really truly feels their age. Still, I suppose I should have tried to go out drinking or something, but I honestly wasn't in the mood for it. Well, that and more so that I don't have the money or the time. I wish I had some wise words to give out, but I honestly don't. 21 is still relatively young, I suppose, so I have time. Other than me turning 21, it was a pretty blah day. Ended up trying to stay awake more than anything and didn't really get all that much studying or work done. I did go ahead and get a burrito from Chipotle for lunch today as a bit of a birthday gift. Well, that and I was tired of really only being able to make sandwiches for meals since we still don't have a functioning kitchen. I really hope those plumbers get it sorted out soon... So, checklist, I guess. Projected Checklist for 11/2/05 - Study Human Evolutionary Anatomy - Study Osteology - Try to drop of movie theatre forms I have - Attend Osteology Lab Hours - Pushups - Update Journal Current Mood: Winding Down Current Music: VG Frequency #40 (Comment on this)
Monday, October 31st, 2005
9:38 am	Laying Down the Apeshit Totem That's right, the apeshit totem. If you don't understand what I mean by that, I am currently seething in rage, the build up of all of October concentrated into the core of my being on its last and final day. I am ready to freak out and start busting heads, tearing through campus causing damage that would rival major hurricanes or the aftermath of Godzilla. A hundred analogies are running through my head but perhaps the most effective would be that I have reached my Limit Break. Having woken up this morning I realized slowly how shitty of a month I have had. I have had a test each week, often two tests in a week, have had a hard time getting back the forms I need to get turned in to see if I can get a job at a movie theatre, have practically no money and the money I get coming in for my birthday I can't spend (I need it for Christmas gifts for my nuclear family), am studying my ass off frantically for tests I don't do well enough on, have missed karate for over a month now, and have a kitchen that is flooding 3 or 4 times a day, making it so I not only have to put up with one of the few truly noxious smells in my opinion (sickly-sweet garbage smell), but also can't cook, do the dishes, or do laundry. Hell, some of the time I can't even get in the kitchen to get ice or make some microwave popcorn because the sink flooded again over an hour ago! And don't get me started on maintenance at the apartment. Took them close to three months to finally listen to us when we said the sink overflowed and despite calling in plumbers, the problem has only gotten worse in the past few weeks. So yeah, all this shit has pretty much accumulated to the point where I need a major release, preferably something violent. I need to bust out on someone or something with a 16 hit combo, I need to break the Life Gate, I need to just tear the place apart. So yeah, sorry about the rant, I'll probably drain out tomorrow, the day of my 21st birthday (which I have neither the time nor money to properly fucking celebrate). Here's the damn checklist for today. Projected Checklist for 10/31/05 - Study Human Evolutionary Anatomy - Register for Spring Classes - Try to drop of movie theatre forms I have - Karate Practice tonight - Pushups - Update Journal - Bust out the Apeshit Totem Current Mood: Limit Break Current Music: "Ultimate Secrets," Naruto OST 3 (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
11:40 am	Am I a man dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly having a nightmare about being a college student Bleh...... Busy, busy day Wednesday. Slept through anatomy, again. I have determined that it is impossible for me to wake up at 7:00 am for that class. Not get up, I can do that, but rather wake up. I am never lucid at that time and never achieve lucidity the rest of the day. Yet, if I wake up even an hour later, I am perfectly fine. Hopefully I fix this next semester. Headed to campus around 9ish, picked up some computer paper since I was down to my last 2 or 3 sheets (never a good thing for a gamer, especially one in college), and then headed to go see about finding the Butokukan table at the UF Health Fair. Man, we got a bit screwed there, ended up being in the ass-end of the colonnade, away from all normal traffic and stuck behind a larger table that blocked us out. It was fine, though, I got to hang out with some cool folks that I hadn't seen in a while, thanks to my hectic schedule. It was nice to chill and just chat it up with friends on a nice day and put all thoughts of tests out of my mind. Course, when I headed to class that reality came back, but hey, for those 3 or so hours it was real nice. Got a free soda to boot! Nothing much happened in class, other than finding out office hours after class were canceled since the professor and TA had a case to go out to. Was nice to get home a bit earlier than expected, and got to watch this weeks Bleach ep (so glad that this show is finally shifting back into gear), so it was all good. Course, when I tried to get back to studying I pretty much was put to sleep by my Research Methods in Criminology textbook. Osteology lab that evening was a blessing from on high. Got almost every question I had about the new material and material I had missed hammered out. I am now the Carpal King and Sultan of Shafts! Still gotta review all the old stuff, especially the cranium and some of the vertebra, but that's what I have Thursday and some of Friday for. After lab, though, was pretty bad. After reaffirming my dislike for Dr. Pepper (horrible aftertaste that lingers for much longer than it should) and getting some rice and chili mash cooked up I hit my Research Methods text book like crazy. Actually got focused (well, as focused as possible when you start at 11pm) and managed to hang in there and finish the readings by 3am. After that pretty much just grabbed as much sleep as I could before waking up at 8:30 to review my notes! So, as a result, I am feeling pretty tired! No worries, eh? Well, onto the checklists... Projected Checklist for 10/27/05 - Study Osteology like there is no tomorrow - Check up on double major form - Try to make it to Karate - Practice karate - Pushups - Update Journal Daily Checklist for 10/26/05 - Study Research Methods in Criminology SUCCESS - Attend Osteology office hours SUCCESS - Drop off the theater forms I have FAILURE - Breakout DDR pad for exercise FAILURE - Practice karate SUCCESS (somewhat) - Pushups FAILURE - Update Journal DELAYED TILL THURSDAY MORNING Current Mood: tired Current Music: Blank Label Podcast (www.blanklabelcomics.com/podcast) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
11:45 pm	Can't sleep Bleh.... Can't sleep. This is despite me being tired all day and literally dozing off while I tried to study. Why I am tired but can't actually sleep, I have no earthly idea. Oh well, onto the recap of today's events.... ...And really nothing much happened. I think the two biggest things other than my sleep problems were finding out that I have a test in Research Methods in Criminology in two days and having to skip the Grad School Hunting seminar tonight so I could try to study for it. Well, the later didn't work (kept dozing off when I read...) and the former baffles me. Why we have a test only a week after we turned in a major paper and two weeks after we had a test, I don't know. Just means that I gotta get through about 100 pages of textbook and 5-10 pages of notes tomorrow on top of all the other stuff I gotta get done. Nothing to do about that, though. So, checklist time... Daily Checklist for 10/25/05 - Study Osteology FAILURE (studied some for Criminology instead) - Study Anatomy FAILURE - Work on cosmology idea kicking around in my head for DnD FAILURE (might morph into Star Wars mission) - Break out the DDR pad for exercise FAILURE - Practice karate (REALLY NEED TO GET ON THIS!!!) SUCCESS - Pushups SUCCESS - Update Journal SUCCESS Projected Checklist for 10/26/05 - Study Research Methods in Criminology - Attend Osteology office hours - Drop off the theater forms I have - Breakout DDR pad for exercise - Practice karate - Pushups - Update Journal Current Mood: thirsty Current Music: "Deadly Promises," by Darangen (www.ocremix.org) (Comment on this)
Monday, October 24th, 2005
10:01 pm	Fall Weather, Sinks, and 10K Commotion Well, been about a week or so since my last update, showing that I am really miserable at these things. But its not like much has happened, you know? Lets see.... Wednesday I got a stipend from my parents for food and such in case the hurricane came. Also, finally got around to getting a haircut. Gonna take me a while to get used to not having so much hair again, especially when I catch a glimpse of my shadow or see myself in the mirror. Not bad looking, though. Also studied for my Law Enforcement test while desperately trying not to laugh at the chapter on computers in the textbook on policing methods and police organization published in 1999. Man, everything in that chapter was a chuckle. Thursday I got to sleep in even longer than usual since my Research Methods in Criminology class got canceled. Slept in, finished studying, and played some Rakion. Nice little intermission before my test. I think I did pretty well on it, hoping to find out soon. Thursday evening and Friday evening were pretty much the same thing. Wes came by with his laptop and we pretty much got our blood pressure to enormous levels playing Rakion. Man, that game needs to auto-balance teams better... Oh yeah, and Friday during the day was pretty easy. Made it to morning Anatomy lecture, where I was warned of the next test well in advance. Evening Osteology was half spent realizing how little I know playing "Who Wants To Be An Osteologist" and half spent frantically studying bones after finding out that the next quiz was going to be in a week. Saturday was spent sleeping, studying, and playing more games with Wes, Matt, and Steve. Unintentionally crushed Wes's ego in Rakion, beating him 5 out of 5 times in solo PvP. I think it was due to the odd lag he got, mostly, but hey, seemed to affect him more than it should have (he's significantly higher in level than I am at the moment, and a ninja to boot). Also had to refrain from exploding at Matt while playing a Munchkin-like game called Gloom. When a man flat out falsely denigrates you for no good reason, it takes a lot more restraint than I probably should have used. But, he is my roomie, and even if his arrogance is quite annoying, he is still a pretty good guy. Sunday was spent studying and playing DnD. Steve got his campaign back up and I gotta say, was a bit under whelmed. He had a hard time getting the ball rolling and while I liked playing up the arrogant fighter attitude, it got bogged down in talking to NPCs for much to long. Course when we finally did get to battle Steve throws guys at us that are nigh-impossible to beat. One guy had an AC that woulda required me to roll around a 17 on a d20 to even hit him, an archer 20 feet up was pelting us with 2 attacks around, ach doing an average of 9-13 damage a hit, and a vicious little mage went out of his way to make my life miserable. I'd say that the 3rd round into combat I get hit with a blindness spell, pretty much making it impossible for me to hit the uber-AC monk. Meanwhile, even though I am blinded, I continue to be pelted by the archer, despite me not being a threat to her in anyway. Then the next round I get hit with a slow spell and I pretty much sit it out after that. I retreat to relative safety and do nothing for the rest of the battle, which probably took about an hour more to complete. Not my idea of fun. Hopefully he gets better, otherwise I'll probably drop out. PC's are supposed to be heroes, not punching bags. And that leads me to today. Woke up tired from having not been able to fall asleep last night and then sleeping fitfully. Decided to IM Michelle and tell her I wasn't going to go to anatomy and that she would have to not skip today. Why I do this, I don't know. Seems everyday I skip she skips also. But considering she slept till two in the afternoon today, I am willing to cut her some slack (for today at least, heh). When I did get up fully I was much more awake. Hit up osteology lecture where I found out that I am gonna have to yet again miss karate practice at least once this week for extended office hours on Wednesday evening. See, thing with osteology is that the class is required for several different areas of archeology and anthropology, so a lot of folks want into it. But the teacher likes to keep classes small to make sure the info gets taught. Well, one semester he decided not to teach the class, so when the next semester came around he created a backlog of students that he now has to try to clear out. So now our class is too big open up the bone lab to everyone at anytime. This means that the only time we get to get our hands on bones is for 2 hours on Friday afternoons, and since to truly understand everything in the class you need to, well, "look at the bones!" you can see where getting in all the lab time you can becomes important. So to tie this back to karate, this means that I'll be missing practice Wednesday night for lab time in osteology. Now, as for the rest of today, things were, well, tranquil. The weather is nice, reaching that true Soccer Weather chill that can only hearken the coming of fall. Kinda hard for me to describe, honestly. It is chilly, but at the same time, bright outside so that it isn't cold. The air smells differently, a little wetter perhaps, and over all it just makes me want to stay outside for much longer than I normally do. It is just what I can best describe as Soccer Weather, and thank the Lord that it has come finally, even if it is only until the hurricane down south passes through. Soccer Weather just washes over me like a tranquil wave, shifting me into a peaceful, almost Zen-like mental state where I can get things done with a minimal of stress. It's too bad that it only stays that way for a few weeks out of the year for me. Course, all the tranquility in the world did nothing to contain my rage at maintenance today. When we moved into this apartment this past August we quickly found out that there was a problem with the piping leading to the kitchen sink, causing it to back up and overflow occasionally, usually when someone else in the building uses their dishwasher or washer. Well, we told maintenance about this the 2nd or 3rd day we moved in and they have yet to honestly do anything about it other than say that the piping is old and that it is probably linked to someone else's apartment room also. Well, tonight this problem came to a head as the sink began to run over like a waterfall, with myself and my roomies unable to do much of anything to contain it and unable to do absolutely anything to stop it once the garbage disposal stopped working. So I call maintenance and basically the message I get is that he'll get to it tomorrow. How this stops our kitchen floor from becoming a lake tonight, I don't know. Needless to say, I am a bit livid about all this now, especially since the problem was reported over 2 months ago and appears to have been present for much longer, judging from the nasty warping on the cabinets the sink is on. Not much to do about it, though, I suppose. Finally, I spent the rest of tonight (when not playing Rakion for a couple hours or studying a little Osteology) reading an amazingly well done webcomic called The 10K Commotion. Its been out for a good long while, and appears to be nearing the end of the story, but it that just means more for you to read and enjoy. It covers the meeting between to rival Dance, Dance, Revolution teams at a tournament in Hawaii. Yes, I know, it sounds silly, but it actually works extremely well, focusing more on how the individuals on the two teams bond with each other and other teams they meet more than the actual competition, though that is a big part still. The updates seem sporadic, from what I can dig up, but look to come in big chunks. I really recommend it, one of the better ones I have read in a while. http://10kcommotion.com/ So that is that. Heh, I know it seems like a lot, but honestly, not too much really happened since last Wednesday, just a lot of much the same. Now I suppose I should get onto the checklist for tomorrow... Daily Checklist for 10/25/05 - Study Osteology - Study Anatomy - Work on cosmology idea kicking around in my head for DnD - Break out the DDR pad for exercise - Practice karate (REALLY NEED TO GET ON THIS!!!) - Pushups - Update Journal Current Mood: peaceful Current Music: "America," by Simon and Garfunkle (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
9:53 am	Hmmm...... Guess I really did need that sleep. Ended up getting home last night, went to take a small nap and ended up sleeping till I had to wake up the next morning. Something along the lines of 12 hours of sleep, I believe. Oh well, unto yesterday, where nothing much really occurred. Got my paper turned in and found out/was reminded that Thursday lecture in Research Methods is canceled, which is nice. The class is my 2 period class that day, and my morning class to boot, so it looks like I will either be a) sleeping in Thursday, or b) using that time to get in more studying for my Law Enforcement test that afternoon. Knowing how I operate, more than likely choice a over choice b. Finally got my double major form turned in yesterday. Just gots to wait 7-10 days to see if it got through. Hopefully it gets cleared before I have to register for Spring classes. Would be nice if I didn't get blocked out of the criminology department courses till winter break this year. Oh well, nobody's fault but my own if I don't. Pretty much dozed through my evening class. No sleep does that to you. When I got home I got a pleasant surprise in a package of candy from my Aunt Kari. Definitely a bonus to a cash-strapped lad in the tail end of his collegiate mid-terms. After that I pretty much went to take a nap, overslept the alarm that was supposed to wake me in a couple hours, and managed to wake up on time for my morning classes. How I did that last bit, I don't know, but always a plus. Now, onto the checklists: Daily Checklist for 10/18/05 - Finish Double Major Form SUCCESS - Study for Law Enforcement Exam on Thursday FAILURE - Take a nap OVER-ACHIEVED - Pushups FAILURE - Practice Karate FAILURE - Update Journal this Evening POSTPONED TILL MORNING AFTER Daily Checklist for 10/19/05 - Study for Law Enforcement Exam - Get to Comic Book Store - Karate Practice - Pushups - Update Journal this Evening Current Mood: lethargic Current Music: "Fear Of The Flava" by McVaffe (www.ocremix.org) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
9:32 am	I'm Only Sleeping, Take 1 Heh, took all of three days for me to stop updating daily. Gotta love that. To be fair, I have been busy. As a quick recount of the events since last week, I could sum it up with the words "I'm Exhausted." Wednesday and Thursday were spent attempting to focus through a variety of ill effects on my mind. Wednesday I went to my job interview, which I honestly have no idea how well I did. The interview started 45 minutes late and the interviewer was extremely tired from having worked 3 jobs since about 8 or 9 that morning. Still, got a series of forms I had to send home to get filled out by my old work place, The Track Family Recreation Center (Go-karts and Mini-golf for the most part) and to two personal references. As a result of the interview running so late I didn't quite get as much studying done as I would have hoped, though I did pick up groceries afterwords. Thursday was spent trying to cram as much information about anatomy and osteology into my fog-wrapped mind as I futiley could. See, problem with me is that I lack focus, or rather, the ability to focus. I can only work for so long before my brain just shuts down. It is rather quite annoying and I have yet to find a way to conquer or circumvent this inconvinence. Just another roadblock to demolish on my way to Epicdom. Friday.... well, Friday was no fun. Skipped my first class to sleep in since I had been up relatively late the night before, found out my note buddy in said class also skipped (which unfortunately occurs frequently on the days I skip), studied as much as I possibly could, and left to take my two tests, which I promptly failed. Sigh..... Well, I have a few more left in both classes, just need to bring the grades up to a decent level. Friday night hung out with Wes and tore my thumb apart playing King of Fighters 2003, Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, and Soul Calibur 2. Though my thumb felt it by the end, it was a sorely needed break. Saturday was game day, nothing much to explain there. I think I am getting the hang of playing a Wizard quite well. All the spells essentially act as customizable feats, though this not wading into the middle of melee combat is sorta irksome (damn you d4 hitdie and 8 strength!). Also, managed to acquire a second robot in the City of Villians beta, which was quite pleasing in a diabolical sort of way. Also, was introduced to another form of digital crack in the guise of Rakion, a delightful melding of First Person Shooter and MMORPG. Furthermore, it is free, something quite nice with my swiftly dwindling funds. Sunday I managed to get a actual groove going for a good chunk of the day as I hammered out a good chunk of the research I needed for my paper due Tuesday in Research Methods in Criminology. I managed to hit that balance between exhaustion and diligence that allows me to focus quite well. I was quite pleased with myself. Unfortunately Monday I reverted back to my normal ways. Skipped both classes to work on my paper only to find that I couldn't focus on it at all, well, least not till about 7ish at night. By then I had determined that a good chunk of the research I had dug up yesterday really wasn't relevant to my topic (attitudes on abortion with a focus on how gender, age, education, and religious attendance affect them) and promptly stayed up till 5:30 in the morning working on it. AFter catching about an hour-and-a-half's worth of sleep I woke up, went to my morning Research Methods in Crim lab, and now am typing up this long-winded essay of relatively mundane matters. Oh, also found out I am down to about $50ish in my account and as a result have had to cancel my City of Heroes account. Sad day indeed for the citizens of Paragon City. Perhaps I will get this job and be able to reactivate it shortly. So, since it has been much too long since my last checklist, time to start anew. Daily Checklist for 10/18/05 - Finish Double Major Form - Study for Law Enforcement Exam on Thursday - Take a nap - Pushups - Practice Karate - Update Journal this Evening Current Mood: tired Current Music: "A Rush of Blood To the Head," by Coldplay (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
10:23 pm	Day 2 Recap Hmmm.... gonna have to start figuring out better titles. Oh well. Definitely an odd day today. Didn't sleep well again last night, kept half-waking up and checking what time it was. So when I stumble out the door at 8:00 with my bike only to be greeted with a mass of gray sky, I pretty much figured today wasn't going to be my day. But fate favors idiots and I got off being extremely lucky today. Get through my lab class and go home and manage to pound my way through a couple chapters of Law Enforcement with minimal effort. This combined with an odd lil' power nap left me more awake and refreshed than I have felt in a while. So I thought I was already feeling pretty good when I get to my Law Enforcement class and found out that the test has been rescheduled to next week. Bonus! I get home and get m super-hidden-secret video game up and running, and despite some lag issues, enjoy it. And to top it off, I got a call for a job interview for working at a movie theatre. Man, I need this job, even if it means working weekdays. Nothing to do but succeed! Oh, also found a webcomic that seems pretty good. Fragile Gravity, go check it out. Course, didn't get too much done on my too do list, but I blame that on my brain bouncing all about the place like a hyperactive, sugar-fueled toddler. Still, feels like a very productive day. Now if I can only calm down enough to get to bed at a reasonable hour.... Checklist for 10/11/2005 - Read for Law Enforcement Test on Thursday SUCCESS - Read for Human Evolutionary Anatomy Test on Friday FAILURE - Study for Osteology Quiz on Friday FAILURE - Finish up thesis statement for Research Methods SUCCESS - Fill out Double Major form and turn it in FAILURE - Go to Karate Practice FAILURE - Pushups FAILURE - Practice kata FAILURE - Update journal this evening SUCCESS - Get in bed by 11:30 at the latest SUCCESS Projected Checklist for 10/12/2005 - Read for Human Evolutionary Anatomy Test on Friday - Study for Osteology Quiz on Friday - Work on Data Projections for Research Methods - Fill out Double Major form and turn it in - Go to Osteology lab hours - Get a haircut - Do well at 7:45 job interview - Pushups - Practice kata - Update journal this evening - Get in bed by 11:30 at the latest Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: The West Wing (Okay, not music, per se, but still good fun) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, October 10th, 2005
11:14 pm	Day 1: Recap Today was, alas, a most typical day. I awoke restless and lethargic, having slept fitfully the night before. Combined with the weight of knowing that I had two tests this week along with a paper to work on it was difficult to get out of bed and get to my first class. It was fortuitous that I did, for it turns out that I didn't have two tests but rather three. Nice thing to know. Never good to go into a test unprepared. After that the day was pretty much spent fiddling with setting up this journal, reading for my Law Enforcement test on Thursday, and vegging. Watched last week's eppisode of Bleach, which was nice. They're finally getting out of flashback-mode there, though I do wonder why suddenly everyone's favorite word is bankai when previously it was supposed to be a pinnacle of achievement. Also, there was the nap. That was odd. Took a nap and set my alarm to go off at 6:30pm. Well, I woke up then, and I think my alarm went off (Though I never heard it) because I woke it up. Well, woke up is a bit strong, because what instead ensued was my thinking it was 6:30 am on Tuesday, 30 minutes before I had to wake up to get ready for class. So for the next three or four minutes I stumbled around my room in a daze till I finally looked at my alarm clock and noticed that it was odd that the clock said PM. This led me to finally getting a clue and then flopping down for another 15 minutes instead of getting up and studying. Yeah, very disorienting... So, time to go over the checklist. Daily Checklist for 10/10/2005 - Read for Law Enforcement Test on Thursday SUCCESS - Read for Human Evolutionary Anatomy Test on Friday FAILURE - Study for Osteology Quiz on Friday FAILURE - Finish up thesis statement for Research Methods FAILURE - Fill out Double Major form FAILURE - Pushups SUCCESS - Practice kata FAILURE - Update and customize journal this evening SUCCESS - Get in bed by 11:30 at the latest FAILURE Projected Checklist for 10/11/2005 - Read for Law Enforcement Test on Thursday - Read for Human Evolutionary Anatomy Test on Friday - Study for Osteology Quiz on Friday - Finish up thesis statement for Research Methods - Fill out Double Major form and turn it in - Go to Karate Practice - Pushups - Practice kata - Update journal this evening - Get in bed by 11:30 at the latest Current Mood: groggy Current Music: Alpha Rant for 9/18/05 ( www.alphashade.com ) (Comment on this)
10:36 am	Day 1 This is the start of what I hope becomes a useful daily checklist of everything I need to get done durring the day. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortuitously) it begins with a busy-ass week. Daily Checklist - Read for Law Enforcement Test on Thursday - Read for Human Evolutionary Anatomy Test on Friday - Study for Osteology Quiz on Friday - Finish up thesis statement for Research Methods - Fill out Double Major form - Pushups - Practice kata - Update and customize journal this evening - Get in bed by 11:30 at the latest Current Mood: lethargic Current Music: "Do You Want To," by Franz Ferdinand (Comment on this)