Jeff

Week Down

So I’ve finished off the first week of my final year. I have been out enjoying friends, doing social things (something I didn’t do all summer), and otherwise trying to make senior year the best year. I am starting to try and play frisbee, as long as my back doesn’t begin to complain. Its been over a year since my last surgery, and I figure living in fear won’t help, getting out and getting into shape as soon as I can will keep me in shape for a lot longer. I hopefully will be able to uphold all these things throughout the semester. I need to go out sometime this week and get something to wear to breakfast club. Hopefully this week goes fast, I already got out of a day of classes with Labor Day. I think I am going to run out of money this year. I don’t get that reliable paycheck over Christmas break unless I work a few days. I need to see what I can do, probably the spending will drop in a month when I burn more time with classwork, but for now, I am able to manage all the stuff fine. Well so much for my rambling, there really isn’t much coherent organization or division to all that, just long rambling, sorry.

Too Old

So I turned 22 yesterday/today.

I just got back from Nine Irish for the second time tonight. I went out for my first birthday to the bars, I never went out last year since no one I knew was 21 at the time. Devin-cakes was a baller and got me an Irish car bomb, my favorite drink at the pub. I had a Smithwick’s and then requested my second birthday shot of the night, I had my first at Nine Irish with dinner that I got to share with my dad. It was very nice. I get to spend the next few months going to bars with Devin-cakes like old times, with me trying to get him to hit on girls for the entire time, and him being shy the entire time. Eventually I will succeed. Even if it kills me.

So I now have had my first birthday past all the milestones. 22 seems foreign. It is not a milestone birthday, and the only birthday after this that is a milestone is 30, 40. 50, etc. And they are just becoming old, older, and even more older (sorry mom). I mean when I hit 30 (my next milestone) I will be in my possible long term career, probably be married or be about to get married, thinking about kids. I mean that lifestyle is so incredibly foreign to me now. I don’t even know if it will involve Kim (I hope so right now, but I can’t make any guarantees). I don’t know where it will be or what I am doing. I don’t even know if I will be enjoying it (I hope so). 30 seems like such a mystery. And then 40 is the next milestone after that. I am scarred to think where I will be at that point. When I am 40, my mom will be in her 80’s and dad in his late 70’s. Where will they be, can they be still there giving me advice, or will I be sitting there flying by the seat of my pants? Will I have kids or be living a nice childless lifestyle with my wife or be living a single lifestyle mingling with women or will I be a celibate nerd working on a computer through my free nights (I really hope not)? 22 gives me too many mysteries. I still have a final year of college ahead of me and I am already lost when it comes to the future ahead of me. Gah! wish there was some cheat manual that spoiled the ending for me. Then I could know how it all turned out in the end.

22 is too old, and came too soon. (If there are any misspellings, I will hopefully spot them when I read over it sober)

First Day

And the first day is over. Only the rest of my final year of school. sigh I was late for my first class too, like half an hour late. I didn’t get to sleep until 5, so I didn’t get much sleep. The class was ECE 462, its for object-oriented programming. It looks pretty fun, the projects are Breakout in Java and C++, Tetris in Java, Pac-Man in C++, and then some game using networking in either C++ or Java. I think I’ll enjoy it. The other class I had today was ECE 437, its called Computer Architecture and Prototyping, gosh, just saying that to people makes me feel smart. Basically all we will do in it is design a multi-core processor. It should be tough, but very beneficial. I have my two Psych classes tomorrow, the first is with Cray and Gerg.

My birthday is on Wednesday, I will be an old 22. gah. I should be implementing more to this site in the coming weeks. I hope to put the movies in and redevelop my RSS feed. Then probably clean up the gallery sorting and probably figure out something to do with the footer, if you have any ideas, please please leave a comment. I could also possibly try to make a Dtella facebook app. It would be interesting at the least.