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Yeah, I apologize for not updating over the weekend. To be honest, I didn’t even ~look~ at this site over the weekend. I was a lazy, stinky bum. I got more sleep than usual this weekend, though. Saturday in particular. I slept from 11am until shortly after 5pm on Saturday, which meant I was fairly well refreshed before work that night. I only had an hour or two of sleep Sunday, but I didn’t think I needed much more than that. Any more than that, and I wouldn’t have been able to fall asleep last night.

Mornings come earlier now. I’ve set my alarm to wake me up at 6:30am, and it doesn’t get changed (I just turn it off, if I remember, on the weekends for poor Megan’s sake). That gives me between two and a half and three hours in the mornings before my first class, which works out to between two and two and a half hours before I have to be at the bus stop. I’ve done this for two reasons:

1) Physical - I needed to start working out again. I’d stopped exercising sometime during the latter half of last semester [due to school-related stress, methinks], and was starting to look a tad bulgier than I like about the middle. I’m sure no one I know agrees with me on that one, but nyah on all of ya: I noticed a difference. :) I don’t think it’ll effect my weight any… in fact, I may gain a bit by way of muscle mass. I’m hovering between 170 and 175 mostly these days, with occasional jumps to near-180, and occasional dips to 165-ish. At 165 I feel a bit weak, and when I hit 180 my self-confidence takes a nosedive, so I try to avoid the two extremes. But anyway, I got side tracked. I’ve worked out near-daily again (forgot last Saturday) since the 18th.

2) Mental - I want to start writing again, but I’d feel bad if I started skimping on my homework to do it. So I’m hoping to squeeze a bit of creativity out of my pores pre-sunrise. So far, no luck. I’ve been using the extra time to do homework instead, because I’ve been skimping on -that- in the evenings to play with programming. *grin* If you’re brave, Click Here to see what I wasted a few hours on this weekend. IE users, at the very least, will see a nice little fading random background color effect. Netscape, I dunno, because the alpha blending doesn’t work right there, last I knew. The program used to be a LOT more complex and a LOT more painful to view than it is now. It used to be a 40×40 table (that’s 400 cells), and each cell had a different background color chosen from a randomly generated list of 4096 possibilities, updated just as fast as the computer could handle. *grin* It was absolutely horrendous to behold. The worst part: that program started as an attempt to pass form information through a test script before sending it on to another page. I got frustrated, and started playing with md5(microtime()), which essentially produces a random 32-character hexadecimal in PHP (HTML color codes are 6-character hexadecimals).

Okay, enough randomness. :) That’s just more proof as to how easily distracted I am these days. I think that’s what happens when I get roughly enough sleep. My demonic mental washing machine gets set to ‘Super’ and starts to shimmy its way across the floor.

Hey, ma! I need a lamp for the living room after all. *grin* I’ve found that I like to do my homework on the couch, but there isn’t enough light over there by 5pm or so.

Because I can’t concentrate, more randomness:

1) gonna need a new computer soon. The one I’m borrowing from works freaks out if I try to play an MP3 and read my email at the same time. And I’m not going to scare you with tales of using Photoshop on this thing. :)

2) I wish DTN would hurry up and gimme my W-2. I want to do my taxes and get em over with. I wonder if I’m dependant this year?

3) I’ve made a promise to myself to fill out the FASFA (Free Application for Student Financial Aid) for this coming year. I really hope I do it.

4) I miss my friends. :( I wanna ‘hang out’ with someone again. Someone I don’t live with (no offense, love).

5) I noticed this morning that I let my ‘Upcoming’ schedule fall horribly out-of-date. Who’s surprised? I’m going to use this opportunity as an excuse to teach myself how to use the Windows Scheduler. Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to me, either.

Maybe I should post more later, when I’m clear-headed. If I’m clear-headed later. If clear-headedness is more than just a figment of my cloudy-headed imagination.

-Me