12:51 PM @ Work...

Today, after class, I turned in my RSVP for the commencement ceremony that I really don't want to go to.  My relatives guilt tripped me into attending it.  It's gonna suck.  I hated the high school ceremony years ago and I know I'm going to hate this ceremony.  Especially since I went to a friend's ceremony a couple years back.  It wasn't as bad as graduating high school, but it was just as irritating and boring.  Ah, well.

Yesterday was tech day for Shannon's play Genesis:  Lead Me Home it, for the most part, was pretty painless.  Just a few annoying parts here and there with lighting instruments and show audio equipment.  I didn't get electrocuted.  Always a sign of a good tech day I'd say.

After work, I think I'm going to go to Lowe's and pick up a head lamp for Shannon's play since there's no lights up with all the tech stuff.  Shan's play is this weekend at Orpheum with rehearsals going on the rest of the week (except today).

I've got two finals this Thursday.  I'll be glad to be done with them.  Then one to go the week after.

10:39 PM @ Home...

Tonight has mostly been pretty easy going. 
I transferred the audio for Shan's play onto my ipod
and found the cord that I need to connect stuff correctly at Orpheum.

I still need to relabel the tracks.

After work, I went to Home Depot and got some headlamps. 
I got two of them for ten bucks.  Not bad I'd say.  They're pretty bright.

Hopefully, not too bright.

I also organized some of the materials I have to study.
I really don't want to study (it's really boring), but I have to eventually.
Every time when I have "important" things to do I always feel like playing video games.

Tonight is no different.

It's strange.  When I have things to do I want to play video games,
but when I don't have things I have to do I stay fairly far away from them.

Makes no sense.

Well, I guess that's about it for today. 
Time to study or something like that.

Current Mood: apathetic

7:32 PM @ Work...

Strange.
I smell pot in the air...

7:45 PM @ Work...

Today has been a pretty insignificant day.  I really didn't do much. Woke up.  Ate lunch. Then went to work.  I'm still at work as I write this, in fact.  Slow day today.  Some guy got some chow mein, took it home, and brought it back to get a new one because he said it smelled like fish.  He brought the food back and we exchanged it for another.  I smelled the returned food.  It smelled fine to me.  He probably really brought it back because it was cold due to him being forty minutes late to pick it up.  Whatever.

Tomorrow is tech day for Shannon's play at Orpheum.  I wonder how long it'll take.  Hmm...

10:39 PM @ My Room...

I think the podcast series Indiefeed is horrible for me. 
It makes me want to buy a bunch of cds. 

I'm going to try to get to bed early tonight. 
Earlyish morning tomorrow.  Yup yup.

Current Mood: blank

Two awesome friends and dancing downtown = AWESOME!!!!
Good night tonight.  Good night indeed.  :D

Current Mood: happy

12:52 PM @ Work...

Ugh. 
I hate people.

5:50 PM @ Work...

Why in the world do people
always want tables that are obviously dirty!?!?

Blarg!

Anyway, this afternoon I went and met up with James Stone during his office hours.  I got him to approve my "focus" which isn't that big of a deal.  I also gave him my "Petition of Substitution".  He needs to look it over for that one.  Hopefully, he looks it over soon and everything works out okay.

I want to go home right now and play some video games or something and get my mind off  things.  I may also go to Page One and take a look around.  Not sure yet.

10:05 PM @ My room...

I just microwaved some food.
I'm currently listening to a really geeky video game podcast.
I'm kinda tired.  I think I'm going to try to get to bed early tonight.

After work I did end up going to Page One. 
Nothing super notable.

Yup yup.

Current Mood: tired

12/01/09 - 6:30 PM @ Work....

Wow, it's December already!  That was fast.

Only about two weeks left of class.  Tomorrow, I'm going to try to meet up with James Stone, the media arts advisor/super awesome professor to get some things sorted out.  Hopefully, I can get all of it worked out and I can actually be done with college without some sort of oddity somewhere in UNM's record, which would be extremely annoying.

Tonight I'm heading back to campus to print out a bunch of forms and various other things.  It's gonna be cold.  Hopefully, no one's going to be in the computer labs doing things.  With my luck it'll be packed with people paper writing and also printing loads of papers.

Also, as a random note,
I still think my sister's boyfriend is an idiot and a douche.

6:50 PM @ Work...

Bored, bored, bored, bored....

Sometimes I wonder if working as a cashier/to go guy is a little similar to being a taxi driver (to a really really small extent anyway) because people have this weird tendency of telling me FAR too much about themselves.  From stories about deaths in the family to random things that happened when they were in high school to technicians whose sole job is to recover awkward data for investigators.  I don't get it. 

Maybe I just attract strange people, things, and situations???

I dunno.

12/02/09 - 12:19 AM @ My Room...

Home now.

The computer pod at UNM was nice and empty. 
That was pleasant.  I don't have much else to write.

Right now I'm pretty sure my sister is writing a long ass super last minute paper,
because she gets really irritated by little bits of ambient noise outside of her room.

Or she's PMSing.

Current Mood: awake

Originally written at work at 12:00pm...

I've begun walking around with a notepad again like I did years ago.  I forgot how annoying it is sometimes to be left handed.  The spine of the notepad is often in the way so I have to adjust the notepad to make it a slightly better writing experience.

For instance, if the notepad has a spine on the top, I flip the notepad upside down so that the spine is out of the way.  If the spine is on the left side, like a spiral notebook, I flip the notepad over and go backwards through the notepad.  Yeah, I'm a little weird.

I'm hoping that carrying around a notepad again will increase the frequency of my posts.  It's a bit of a waste to have a permanent LJ account and never use it, ya know?

If all goes right, this will be my last semester at UNM.  I'm finally graduating.  The only thing I can think of that could possibly screw it up is the two credit hours I took as credit/no credit instead of a grade.  As it turns out, those two credit hours actually needed to be for a grade.  So I have to fill out some forms and get various approvals.  I hope everything works out okay.  I sent out the forms yesterday.  I feel like I'm absoulutely burnt out on anything school related these days.

12:31 pm...

It's a slow day today.
I'm pretty bored at work.  Thanksgiving was okay, I just hung out with family for most of the day.  It was pretty innocuous for the most part.  I accidentally texted two random people (maybe more) "Happy Thanksgiving!" because a few of my friends got new phones and new numbers.  That was pretty entertaining.  I'm pretty sure that one of the people I texted was hoping that I'd be some really hot chick since his text was a bit on the flirtatious side.  That is...until I said my name was Bruce.  Conversation pretty much ended there.  Haha.

Current Mood: contemplative

Fun Facts on the life of Bruce:

His aunt Mary in Nebraska
was indicted for stealing $3 million dollars
from Micheal Vick and various other football players. 

True story.


Here's a Link:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/NATL-NFL-Adviser-Busted-for-Ponzi-Scheme-54620237.html

Current Mood: contemplative

I think it'd be funny if 99.5's Delilah turned out to be a robot.

Mobile test post.

Sploosh! 
Squishy Squishy Squishy! 
Those are the sounds that my shoes are making today. 

Current Mood: nostalgic

Sometimes people think I look depressed
because I look down when I walk, in reality,

I'm really looking out for crap.

Current Mood: accomplished

I just picked up my reserve copy of Scribblenauts and it didn't come with the ridiculous hat that it was supposed to come with when you preorder the game because they said they ran out of the hat weeks ago YET the Gamestop guy was wearing the hat when I picked up the game.   And when I called a bunch of Gamestops to see if they had any extras they said that they didn't because they only had enough for the preorders, which makes me think that the guy at Gamestop took MY hat!!!!

ARGH!!!!  I really want that ridiculous hat... :(

On another note,
I just filled out a Gamestop survey/complaint form that directly links the Gamestop dude to the survey and checked, "Yes, I would like to be contacted by the district manager".  They better have a hat for me...

Current Mood: irritated

Okay, so it has been a (long) while since I've put anything here. It has mostly been because I haven't really thought of much to put on here that was really worth putting here.  So the way I'm going to alleviate this is problem by putting everything that I didn't think was worth putting here, here.  Make sense?  So this journal is going to become somewhat random and microbloggy (without getting a twitter account).

So here's my first microbloggy random thing:

I think if Google ever built a robot that was always online it would become self-aware pretty quickly and kill us all.

There.  :)

Current Mood: contemplative

God I hate Valentines Day. :(

Current Mood: lonely

Oh!  And a few weeks back, my long time friend Ann got married!
Time sure flies by...

Current Mood: ditzy

Originally written on 12-14-08 in my Journal while teching at ALT (Albuquerque Little Theatre).

There was an exciting semi scary moment today at ALT.

While sitting in the tech booth before the beginning of Miracle on 34th street,
I heard a loud thud and a little girl scream while audience members were seating.

It turned out that an old lady  fell/tripped on the balcony while going down the aisle.
It was a really close call.  She was really close to the edge of the balcony.

Anyone who has ever gone to ALT,
knows that the wall (is it called a wall?) that's supposed to stop
a person from falling off the balcony is really low.

So if a person were not careful, they could ultimately fall off the balcony easily.

Luckily, she didn't fall off.  That would've been really bad.
And this story would've ended worse.

In the end, she just suffered some wrist problems
from landing on her hand oddly.

There were other minor oddities today also...

One of the lights were acting strange.
It would turn on at strange times and go out abruptly.
Lights were also lower than usual.  Along with that, we started Act II incredibly late.

Other than those things,
everything was pretty normal.

Current Mood: contemplative

Entry originally written 12-13-08 in my journal while at ALT.

It's been a while since I've written anything substantial on here.
The last two entries were about my off and on obsession with online tetris on the Wii.
Speaking of Wii, I recently got "Space Invaders Get Even" for it.  It's pretty good.

All you really do is fly around in a saucer, destroy buildings, and abduct cows.
It's kinda funny.

In other news,
right now I'm running sound at ALT for Miracle on 34th Street.
It's an alright show.  It's been through its fair share of issues. 
I'm not going to go through them here since it's sort of a longish list.

At least it all worked out in the end.

I've been in a reading sort of mood lately too.
I just finished "Everything Bad is Good for You", "Watchmen", and "How I Conquered Your Planet"
They were pretty good for the most part.

"Everything Bad..." was a really interesting take on pop culture.
"Watchmen" was good.  I wanted to read it before seeing the movie next year.
I hope they don't screw it up.  Lastly, "How I conquered Your Planet" was just plain silly.
(in a good ridiculous sort of way)

At the moment,
I'm reading "Something Wicked Comes This Way" by Ray Bradbury.
I haven't gone through much of it, but it's not bad so far.  I remember long ago as a kid
seeing bits and pieces of the movie when it was on TV and I've always wanted to read it.

So I guess I don't have much else to say.
I'm sure there are other things going on, but I can't really think of any of it.
So I'll leave with one last little tidbit...

Last week I got mentioned on a photography podcast called "Indecent Exposure"
(which sounds way worse than it actually is.  They just review photo equipment and such)
Anyway, every week they do a giveaway and you have to submit photos according to the week's theme to win.

I didn't win,
but I did come close as a runner-up.  That was cool.
Here's the photo I submitted.  The theme for the week was best macro photo...



I took this photo when ants invaded my room.
They're surrounding a bit of dried soda on a cup that I had at the time.  Yup.

Current Mood: contemplative

Stupid tetris!!!!!!!
Not again!!!!!!

p. s.

A real entry coming soon!
I swear! :)

Oi! Playing a "quick" game of Tetris online is not a good idea.

I started playing at like 11:00 PM and now it's 3:00 AM. I have to tell myself not to play video games so late at night...

Current Mood: ditzy

So I just got a wireless keyboard for my Wii. It's pretty nice for the most part. I'm currently typing this post from my bed with the keyboard on my lap. It's far easier and more comfortable than using my laptop. Primarily because my laptop heats up semi quickly (having a hot lap is not awesome my friends) and does stupid things (like die).

So yeah...
i think this means that I might be posting more often now since it's less of a hassle than before.

Yup. I guess that's all for now...

Current Mood: geeky