Tough Day 0

Posted February 3, 2010

Yesterday  was a tough day. I stayed up past 4 last night (or rather this morning) struggling with a (recently working, now not) scanner and trying to format images from said scanner. I managed to finish my project and the presentation on the whole after another hour of work this morning. Once I managed to finish the project I hurried off to school to a class I don’t really understand. Ironically enough, the class is Personal Finance, but we haven’t really learned anything, and I was really hoping I could learn something, anything, but my professor doesn’t really teach, he just rambles. We took our first exam last week and got our grades today, I did poorly, I passed but didn’t do nearly as well as I should have. I really need to learn how to deal with money better, because I work hard but seem to rarely have any amount of money to buy (nice) things. At least I managed to save enough to buy my camera. I love my camera, I don’t know very much about how to take pictures, but I try nonetheless and have been pretty happy with my limited results so far. So on a day that has been a collection of disappointing things I look at some pictures I really like. Here they are.

Weekend in Review (#1) 0

Posted February 3, 2010
This (which will hopefully be turned into a series) is inspired by Kate Miss‘ ‘Bits of My weekend‘, which is one of my favorite parts of Monday mornings. Anyway this was another great weekend, started off by a great game of scrabble with Ed on Friday afternoon after thesis class. I got the letters for create in my next to last draw. I was so pumped to lay that down (I won 373 – 323). Later that night Al and I went to Hyde Park to see some of the kids he went to China with.  We went to this bar called R.P. McMurphy’s which looks really cool from the outside, and is sadly not fun once inside. Laura had us back to her house where she made us a dinner of homemade hummus, eggplant meatballs and quesadillas. So good. Fries later with the gang and then Skyline at 230. I was so tired and so excited to get into bed because Saturday morning I was up at 730 to clean the 1st floor of the house before our landlord came over. I was out the door by 830 and off to see Tracy and Sylvia to work on part of a presentation for class on Monday. Tracy made me an excellent breakfast of eggs, some sort of asian cracker thing, and pineapple. The rest of the day was literally spent planning, shopping, making and eventually eating chili with 10 friends (all we could fit around our table). Ed made a meat chili and I made a vegetarian one (extra spicy with cumin, serrano peppers and lots of chili powder and garlic). Everybody seemed to like them both and Diane, proving how wise it was to invite her, brought some wine that paired well with the chili and a blackberry cobbler that was out of this world. After dinner we played Apples to Apples and Chodge cheated the whole time but we had a great time. Sunday was a lazy morning preceeding 2 hours of class preparing for this presentation on the next day. The upside to this was 2 hours of no internet distractions and thus 2 hours of sketching/doodling and figuring out some ideas for other big projects coming up. Ed and I went for a hard 6 mile run before the sun went down and both of felt good. This hard work and crappy cold morning runs are hopefully starting to get us into shape. Sunday night, per usual, was spent frantically trying to get work done for the beginning of the week but Ed and I are feeling pretty good right now. Hopefully no more 4 am nights for a while. A good weekend, hoping for more of the same to come, just of the warmer variety.

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