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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
I'm living on my own at the house until Saturday. Mike jetted off to Kansas yesterday to meet up with the parents and check out his housing options for med school. So I've been bored off my ass, avoiding doing work, buying more Ken Akamatsu manga, walking the dog, and cleaning my room. Today I finally tackled the toy section of my closet. While I didn't really through out much in this area, I do think I got it a bit more organized and able to hold some of the toys that have been laying around the perimeter of my room for years. I'm actually seriously considering eBaying some of my toylines. Mostly I don't wanna break up my toylines I worked so hard to attain over the years at a garage sale, but also because I need the money. Yep, I've blown through most of my graduation money already. (I have saved a large portion for Comic Con, though.) Them manga books ain't cheap! I'll probably sell them in lots by their toyline. Makes it easier on me, and gets the buyer an instant collection. Now I need to get boxes, padding, and shipping estimates! Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Boy, when I become a sporadic poster, I become a sporadic poster! So how do I summarize a week's events into one post? Friday was the day of my official graduation party. All but 2 guests showed up least least a half an hour late. That was a tad depressing, but it got better as the night wore on. Though I'm still not sure why mom thought it would be a great idea to turn my party into a casino night type of thing. I think she totally forgot about the two months she spent trying to push off her Eastlake casino night tickets onto me and my continuing refusal to accept them. Oh well. Some friends spent the night and we went out to breakfast the next day. Later that night was Ken's graduation party, so UCI and Ken's house took up the remainder of the day. I spent the night there and spent a few hours the next morning driving around town with Nammy looking for DVDs. The rest of the day was a relaxing, uneventful Father's Day. We got to see Batman Begins, which totally rocks, and went to bed rather early. See, the next day mom and dad caught a plane from LAX for a two week business/vacation trip. The flight was at 6, so we had to get up at four. Luckily I didn't need to drive over, but I did do the drive back. I went to a few stores later on that day, but nothing special. Tuesday, though, I got up early and headed back to my San Diego apartment one last time. The Salvation Army arrived to pick up some of the large furniture (save for my rickety bed frame, which I broke apart and threw away, and my apparently too=large sofa which I painstakingly brought out of the apartment and left in an alcove of the hallway....), and I packed up the last of my stuff. I made a quick stop off at the UCSD bookstore to get a blue and gold tassel and headed home. I got back by three in the afternoon. Today I drove around town to pick up some toys and books, having finally found volume 4 of Love Hina in the book cover style I wanted. Maybe now I can buy more, huh? Mike's been in and out of the house with his odd work schedule, so I'm usually by myself for half the day. And next weekend he'll be gone completely so I'll have a few days with the house to myself. Should be interesting. As I started typing this, I could hear the faint popping sound from outside which is a good indicator that Disneyland's fireworks are going off. I need to head back there sometime soon, I think. And oh yeah, I'm a little worried that the collected works of Ken Akamatsu are beginning to take over my life. I'll probably start picking up A.I. Love You after I finish getting all the Love Hina books. And it's less than a week until the next volume of Negima! comes out. Wednesday, June 15, 2005
So I've moved out of my San Diego apartment and am currently wading among the disturbingly large amount of boxes filling my room. Over the weekend I sat through my three and a half hour graduation ceremony on Saturday and left early from Justin's graduation ceremony on Sunday that surprisingly lasted longer. Both ceremonies were followed by dinners held by our respective families, although Justin followed his up with a few too many drinks. Let's just say he didn't enjoy Monday all that much. I still have some stuff to move out from the apartment that I'll pick up next week, though. The Salvation Army was supposed to pick up some of our furniture on Monday, but never showed. They rescheduled for next week, so I have to drive back down for that and pick up the last of my stuff to bring home. Friday, June 10, 2005
I've been thinking about this for a couple of days now. Usually I kind of go on hiatus with my blogging whenever a break in school arrives, posting more or less at random. Now, I like my normal set-up of posting entries at least 5 times a week; I feel like I'm actually using the service I signed up for. But there are times, I have to admit, when meeting that schedule feels like something of a chore. In instances such as those, I kind of force myself to come up with something, anything, to fill my weekly quota. My sparsely appearing "Random Thoughts of the Day" posts were sometimes the result. Keeping this in mind, and knowing that I'm leaving college, I feel it's time that I change my blogging schedule. From now on, it's going to be like my hiatus schedule: I post whenever I feel like I have something interesting to say. If this means only 5 or so posts in a month, so be it. Since I'm done with college, it seemed like an appropriate to make this change. Hell, my blog started as a way to kill 5 minutes in the boring day that was my freshman year social life. So now I don't feel obligated to post, don't feel bad when I forget to like yesterday, and no one is expecting my to do so. Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Well, I'm done with college. It's a strange thing, not knowing what I'll be doing in a couple of months. Knowing that I just attended my last class at UCSD. I showed up, showed off my tank, got my grade, and left. I aced the class, having one of the few working final projects, with perfect attendance and homework submission. Now I just wait around until the graduation ceremony. Justin's out of the apartment until Friday, hanging out with some of his high school friends back in LA. So I'm just here, wasting away the time until I become an adult.... Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Justin and I drove back to San Diego this morning. We arrived in plenty of time for Justin to drop off his paper due today and pretty much finish his undergraduate college career. Me, I just sat around the apartment, browsed the web, and wasted my time until tomorrow. I did have a friend from my electronics class come over to try and help her with her final project. She's still here, so you can imagine it's a fairly involved process. I also called up Robert and IMed Brett to invite them to my graduation party next Friday. It seems like a good time to try and get some HOPE people back together. Monday, June 06, 2005
Justin and I drove to Yorba Linda yesterday so we could go to Disneyland today. It really was kind of the first time he and I planned a big outing like this. Truth be told, though, I'm not exactly sure how much fun he had. There were times where he seemed happy, but there were others where he seemed indifferent or even annoyed. Oh well. On the way home we dealt with some bad traffic and I got rear-ended at a slow speed. We're both fine, but the Explorer has some rear bumper alignment issues. So now I've got to deal with that. Saturday, June 04, 2005
For the past few weeks I've been saying that my UCSD college career is going out with a whimper. Today I proved it. I finished my practicum paper and dropped it off at the proper inbox on campus. It was actually a bit of a small miracle that the mail room at Galbraith Hall was even open today. Yesterday I finished up my tank project, and I've been done with my scripting class for well over a week now. All that's left for me to do to finish all my classes is show up Wednesday afternoon, show off my little tank, and go home. Then I do the graduation ceremony on Saturday. Whatever happened to worrying about finals? Friday, June 03, 2005
I spent most of my day putting together my final project for Vis 147B. Holy hell, I'm not procrastinating! I didn't procrastinate so much that I finished my project! Here's my online documentation! Thursday, June 02, 2005
Class got out early for me today, so I went with Justin to the nearby California Pizza Kitchen for a kind of "college is damn near over" dinner. We've since been talking about our respective college experiences, missed opportunity, and roommates. It's both incredibly depressing and highly enlightening. Wednesday, June 01, 2005
I said I'd talk about that song making me feel low, so here it is. I'm afraid of the future. I'm afraid of graduating. This isn't like changing schools, this is leaving them altogether. Sure, there's still grad school at some point, but in two weeks I'm going to have to deal with "the real world." It's odd, knowing that an institution which has dominated my lifestyle in some form or another for the past 19 years is going away. I have to start making my own way, not rely on my parents. Admittedly, they'll still be giving me free housing and food, but sooner or later I'll need to move out. My childhood is over, and no amount of action figures will change that. Today's activities didn't help much, either. I picked up my hat and gown, and turned in my 30 day notice for my apartment. The end of my educational life is near, and it's a scary thought. |
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