I'm working at the library again this term. No UROP for me, but hey, at least the library job keeps me fed. I just barcoded a book entitled "Creep Data". It's 848 pages long and huge. It made me laugh. I wonder if there are similar books about nerds... ^_~ Well, of course, in the end, it was about metals and alloys, not personalities. Sigh.
Armin van Buuren is going to keep doing A State of Trance, just on other channels. Even better, it seems like it's going to air without commercials. I won't be able to listen to the show because I have class when it airs, but I can definitely find copies later. Yay!
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: The Postal Service - Natural Anthem
Current mood: Sleepily perplexed
Friday, February 25, 2005
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Work Work Work
I went home this weekend since we had a three day weekend. It was lovely. I bought clothes for Japan, which is annoying and happy at the same time. I did a lot of reading, but not much else. Well, I guess I finished up a picture too. Haven't colored stuff on the computer in that style in ages.
The big accomplishment of this week so far has been doing 100+ pages of Politics reading in just over three hours. I wish I could get through such huge amounts of Signals and Systems homework that quickly. Sarah and Vikki and I worked on it some tonight, but could only do two of the eight problems in the end. Tragic.
Now I need to write a letter in Japanese and it will take me forever, so I ought to get started. I have a biochem lecture early tomorrow morning and it will be sad.
Oh, I finally fixed the stupid comment system so that it actually works now. Not that anyone cares. And mad props go out to Mike for finding a whole bunch of Day After Tomorrow songs. They make me happy.
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Day After Tomorrow - Regret
Current mood: Amused
The big accomplishment of this week so far has been doing 100+ pages of Politics reading in just over three hours. I wish I could get through such huge amounts of Signals and Systems homework that quickly. Sarah and Vikki and I worked on it some tonight, but could only do two of the eight problems in the end. Tragic.
Now I need to write a letter in Japanese and it will take me forever, so I ought to get started. I have a biochem lecture early tomorrow morning and it will be sad.
Oh, I finally fixed the stupid comment system so that it actually works now. Not that anyone cares. And mad props go out to Mike for finding a whole bunch of Day After Tomorrow songs. They make me happy.
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Day After Tomorrow - Regret
Current mood: Amused
Friday, February 18, 2005
Walking on Sunshine
Funny how something as simple as an email can turn everything around and make a new day so much better than the last. I guess multiple emails help even more.
Email the first: Sarah thanked me for the soup. I was glad that it was appreciated, and it made me feel better about... well, everything in general.
Email the second: I got dates and pay information from Hitachi at long last. I will be in Japan from June 1st through August 31st. Things are gonna be craaaaaazy - as soon as finals are over, I go diving with my dad at St. Martin (in the Caribbean, somewhat east of the Virgin Islands, woot!), and then as soon as we get back, I'm off to Japan! Oh, the insanity. I'm so looking forward to it. :D
Email the third: There's some guy out there who likes my clay dragons so much that he's started making his own. People say that imitation is the highest form of flattery... Well, I'm touched. It's all very cute. ^_^ When I read the email and saw the attached digital pictures, I laughed for like, two minutes straight (in delight, not derision!). I walked to class with a huge smile on my face, which was pretty amazing because I don't think that's ever happened before. It was really quite wonderful.
Dratted mood swings. Well, at least I don't feel so gray and empty inside today, and that makes me very happy indeed. The fact that I got sleep last night must have helped too. <_<;
I'm finally listening to my collection of songs by TaQ which I haven't listened to for, oh, maybe half a year. Why haven't I?! I don't think I ever realized how good his music is, other than Era, which I already know is awesome. I am quite pleased.
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: TaQ - Era (Grand Blue -era outsetmix-)
Current mood: ^___^
Email the first: Sarah thanked me for the soup. I was glad that it was appreciated, and it made me feel better about... well, everything in general.
Email the second: I got dates and pay information from Hitachi at long last. I will be in Japan from June 1st through August 31st. Things are gonna be craaaaaazy - as soon as finals are over, I go diving with my dad at St. Martin (in the Caribbean, somewhat east of the Virgin Islands, woot!), and then as soon as we get back, I'm off to Japan! Oh, the insanity. I'm so looking forward to it. :D
Email the third: There's some guy out there who likes my clay dragons so much that he's started making his own. People say that imitation is the highest form of flattery... Well, I'm touched. It's all very cute. ^_^ When I read the email and saw the attached digital pictures, I laughed for like, two minutes straight (in delight, not derision!). I walked to class with a huge smile on my face, which was pretty amazing because I don't think that's ever happened before. It was really quite wonderful.
Dratted mood swings. Well, at least I don't feel so gray and empty inside today, and that makes me very happy indeed. The fact that I got sleep last night must have helped too. <_<;
I'm finally listening to my collection of songs by TaQ which I haven't listened to for, oh, maybe half a year. Why haven't I?! I don't think I ever realized how good his music is, other than Era, which I already know is awesome. I am quite pleased.
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: TaQ - Era (Grand Blue -era outsetmix-)
Current mood: ^___^
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Jaded Junior
Ugh, I don't know what's wrong with me tonight. It's only the third week of term, and I'm completely exhausted. Today after class, I went to work, did a bit of grocery shopping, came back, cooked dinner, ran off to biochem recitation, went and read at the library for a bit, and then came back to my room to study Japanese. I might even get to sleep before 1am tonight. Haven't done that at all this week yet.
Problem sets have become incomprehensible, papers are piling up, and I have a huge stack of books to read through. The workload is frightening... I've never taken five full classes before, and with work on top of that, I don't have time to do much of anything besides class work, I guess. A couple hours ago, I got really antsy and I was really hoping to see people at the dorm study break, even so I could just sit down for a few minutes and chill... But no one was there. Then I felt really discouraged, and felt like I hadn't seen anyone in days... Even though I'd seen Sarah and Vikki in lecture today and talked to people last night and did p-sets with them earlier this week and all. I don't like feeling so... needy for human contact. Maybe I've been listening to too much music. I just got ahold of several remixes of Delerium's "After All" and I have been listening to them like, all day long. They are awesome. But I probably shouldn't be listening to various versions of a single song for hours on end. I wish I had enough energy to get started on some of my homework ahead of time. But all I really want to do is to sleep. Or talk to someone. But no one is around, and I haven't learned all my new Japanese vocabulary yet. At least I'm going home this weekend. I'm desperately looking forward to it. I need to get away from everything MIT, even if it's only for a couple days. Even if I still have a million things to do for classes.
I invited Sarah over to my house this weekend, but she just got sick a few days ago, so I don't know how that's going to fly. I feel like she's been annoyed at me for the past few days, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because I was hopelessly stupid and useless for the last 6.003 p-set (Signals and Systems = evil math), and there was stress and stuff involved too.... yeah. I made chicken soup for her tonight because it gave me an excuse to cook something, which I don't seem to do much these days... The mix said to use canned chicken, and I laughed at it and bought real chicken and made it with carrots and peas... It came out quite good, but I wish I'd had some more substantial noodles. Oh well. I hope Sarah liked it. I had to run off to class, so I don't even know if she ate it.
Ah, I feel so gloomy. I don't want to draw, or play DDR, or do much of anything. I wonder if I'd feel happier if I could go read outside in the sunlight and 50-degree weather... Too bad the weather report indicates that we're heading back to seasonably chilly temperatures.
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Chromatone - Phantons
Current mood: Dull
Problem sets have become incomprehensible, papers are piling up, and I have a huge stack of books to read through. The workload is frightening... I've never taken five full classes before, and with work on top of that, I don't have time to do much of anything besides class work, I guess. A couple hours ago, I got really antsy and I was really hoping to see people at the dorm study break, even so I could just sit down for a few minutes and chill... But no one was there. Then I felt really discouraged, and felt like I hadn't seen anyone in days... Even though I'd seen Sarah and Vikki in lecture today and talked to people last night and did p-sets with them earlier this week and all. I don't like feeling so... needy for human contact. Maybe I've been listening to too much music. I just got ahold of several remixes of Delerium's "After All" and I have been listening to them like, all day long. They are awesome. But I probably shouldn't be listening to various versions of a single song for hours on end. I wish I had enough energy to get started on some of my homework ahead of time. But all I really want to do is to sleep. Or talk to someone. But no one is around, and I haven't learned all my new Japanese vocabulary yet. At least I'm going home this weekend. I'm desperately looking forward to it. I need to get away from everything MIT, even if it's only for a couple days. Even if I still have a million things to do for classes.
I invited Sarah over to my house this weekend, but she just got sick a few days ago, so I don't know how that's going to fly. I feel like she's been annoyed at me for the past few days, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because I was hopelessly stupid and useless for the last 6.003 p-set (Signals and Systems = evil math), and there was stress and stuff involved too.... yeah. I made chicken soup for her tonight because it gave me an excuse to cook something, which I don't seem to do much these days... The mix said to use canned chicken, and I laughed at it and bought real chicken and made it with carrots and peas... It came out quite good, but I wish I'd had some more substantial noodles. Oh well. I hope Sarah liked it. I had to run off to class, so I don't even know if she ate it.
Ah, I feel so gloomy. I don't want to draw, or play DDR, or do much of anything. I wonder if I'd feel happier if I could go read outside in the sunlight and 50-degree weather... Too bad the weather report indicates that we're heading back to seasonably chilly temperatures.
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Chromatone - Phantons
Current mood: Dull
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Adventures With IPod
Well, it is the beginning of term all over again and I am sitting here collecting my thoughts and listening to my brand new iPod. Now, if you know me at all, you must be thinking, Brand new? How can that be? I thought she got it for Christmas... And you would be right. However, you were probably unaware that it threw a temper tantrum last week and has refused to connect to my computer ever since. The hard drive would also spin uncontrollably but be unable to find any music (even though I had about a gigabyte of music stored on it).
After several hours (days, even!) of troubleshooting and searching internet forums and generally despairing, I took my poor ailing iPod over to the Apple store in the Galleria. I was a bit worried because I didn't have the receipt with me, and I didn't want to drag my laptop along. Fortunately, the Apple guys (at the "genius bar", haha) were really nice and totally willing to check out my iPod. After a lot of hemming and hawing (and one of them running into the top secret back room with my poor mp3 player), they concluded that my iPod was trapped in a "negative infinity loop", which was causing the hard drive to spin ineffectively, and that the only thing that could be done was to replace it. So just like that, they gave me a new iPod! Even though I didn't have a receipt or anything. I guess they also checked when I registered my iPod in the first place... Anyway, it was very convenient and I was very grateful. Although kind of sad to see my first iPod go. Even though it was all scratched up, and the sound quality made me want to kill myself sometimes. Before I left the store, I made sure to get a protective case for my new iPod. I wasn't about to let it get as scratched as my old one.
After I got back to my room, I did all the required setup, slid the iPod into its lovely new case (can't see the shiny metal anymore, but it still looks dignified), and let it charge up for a couple of hours. After that, it connected flawlessly to my computer, and I started piling music back on it. As a definitive test, I recopied one of the songs off my Amethystium CD. I've always had trouble with these songs with my old iPod - the sound quality on them was just bad. The upper registers would get all staticky and nasty and it would make me want to cry and get some other kind of mp3 player. But guess what! The song played perfectly on my new player! And the screen doesn't have the disturbing rainbowy sheen that my old one did. So I'm thinking that I must have gotten a defective iPod in the first place for Christmas. Disheartening, yes. Especially thinking back to all of the hours that I spent screaming silently at my iPod and trying not to throw it out the window. At least I have something that works now, so let's hope it stays that way. I've fallen in love with my iPod all over again, so for now it's a happy ending. I'm just praying that this thing doesn't die right before I go to Japan, since that was my primary motivation for getting an mp3 player in the first place.
And if you'll excuse me now, there's a lot of studying-to-portable-music that needs to be done. ^_^
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Ayumi Hamasaki - Ayu Trance - Immature (Koglin & Health Remix)
Current mood: Relieved
After several hours (days, even!) of troubleshooting and searching internet forums and generally despairing, I took my poor ailing iPod over to the Apple store in the Galleria. I was a bit worried because I didn't have the receipt with me, and I didn't want to drag my laptop along. Fortunately, the Apple guys (at the "genius bar", haha) were really nice and totally willing to check out my iPod. After a lot of hemming and hawing (and one of them running into the top secret back room with my poor mp3 player), they concluded that my iPod was trapped in a "negative infinity loop", which was causing the hard drive to spin ineffectively, and that the only thing that could be done was to replace it. So just like that, they gave me a new iPod! Even though I didn't have a receipt or anything. I guess they also checked when I registered my iPod in the first place... Anyway, it was very convenient and I was very grateful. Although kind of sad to see my first iPod go. Even though it was all scratched up, and the sound quality made me want to kill myself sometimes. Before I left the store, I made sure to get a protective case for my new iPod. I wasn't about to let it get as scratched as my old one.
After I got back to my room, I did all the required setup, slid the iPod into its lovely new case (can't see the shiny metal anymore, but it still looks dignified), and let it charge up for a couple of hours. After that, it connected flawlessly to my computer, and I started piling music back on it. As a definitive test, I recopied one of the songs off my Amethystium CD. I've always had trouble with these songs with my old iPod - the sound quality on them was just bad. The upper registers would get all staticky and nasty and it would make me want to cry and get some other kind of mp3 player. But guess what! The song played perfectly on my new player! And the screen doesn't have the disturbing rainbowy sheen that my old one did. So I'm thinking that I must have gotten a defective iPod in the first place for Christmas. Disheartening, yes. Especially thinking back to all of the hours that I spent screaming silently at my iPod and trying not to throw it out the window. At least I have something that works now, so let's hope it stays that way. I've fallen in love with my iPod all over again, so for now it's a happy ending. I'm just praying that this thing doesn't die right before I go to Japan, since that was my primary motivation for getting an mp3 player in the first place.
And if you'll excuse me now, there's a lot of studying-to-portable-music that needs to be done. ^_^
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Ayumi Hamasaki - Ayu Trance - Immature (Koglin & Health Remix)
Current mood: Relieved