Well, I am halfway through my last semester in college. We’ve had seven weeks, we have seven more. Well, eight if count finals, but they don’t really count. Time just keeps on moving. Spring break is over now and classes start tomorrow. Let’s see, did I get done what I wanted to over break? Hmmm. Project for class? Check. Work on my website? Check. Find a job for after graduation? Still looking….

Have I mentioned how hard it is to find a job in the Dallas area when I’m up in Indiana? Yeah, not having much luck. Hopefully something will come up in say, oh, the next eight weeks or so! Other than the need to find a job, things are going well. I’ve been more in contact recently with friends from Cameroon / Massachusetts than I have been in a long time.

So things are good. Now I just need a girlfriend…

After spending the first half of the week down in Indy, I came back up to Upland on Wednesday. After putting of my project even more, I finally sat down and worked on it today. Started before lunch and worked pretty much until supper time. The good thing is, the project is pretty much done! I still need to come up with some thorough tests for it, but it’s basically there.

Not only that, I put my resume in at a place in Indy in case something doesn’t come up right away, and hopefully that will give me something to fall back on. I haven’t heard from them yet, but I have a couple of friends from Taylor who work there so chances are a lot higher there than other places. So we’ll see…

Tonight I spent the evening with a friend watching the Xavier/Texas March Madness game. It’s amazing to me how I can get into sports so much when I don’t even really care about the teams that are playing. Xavier being the underdog, we chose to cheer for them, and it was a close game the whole way. By the end I was standing up five feet from the TV with white knuckles. Xavier played hard and ended up with the win.

One other thing - Happy Birthday Karyn! Hope it was a special day for you!

and it feels really good. Right now I’m at Andrew’s place, and all he has is a dial-up connection. Not only that, but he has a laptop and he takes it with him to work. I brought my computer with me, but I don’t have a modem. Doh! So during the day, there really isn’t all that much I CAN be doing.

Rather than feel like I’m wasting a full week sitting around disconnected from the world, I’ve decided to only stay down here in Indy through Tuesday. On Wednesday I’ll head back up to Upland and stay with a friend off campus for the rest of the week. He has a cable modem, so I can hook into that and once again get some stuff done.

To Do (once I’m back in Upland):
* Finish my Java project for Language Structures
* Work on my website
* Keep looking for a job in the Dallas area

Well, it’s spring break. I really should be more excited than I am right now. But that’s ok. It’s 1:30 in the morning, and I got a lot of packing done tonight. So many people asked me today if I was moving out or something because they saw me packing up almost all of my stuff.

So…here’s the explanation for all who want to know:

I’m graduating in May. One of my best friends is coming to my graduation, and leaving here with me to drive down to Indy. Seeing as I have quite a bit of stuff, I’m taking as much of it as I can down to my brother’s house over break, so that I will have only what I need for the rest of the year left up here. That way at the end of the year I will be able to fit Adam, me, my stuff, AND his stuff all in my little car. Otherwise I would have to leave more stuff behind.

So no, I’m not moving out, I’m just thinking ahead.

The end.

Let’s see - it’s Tuesday night. Spring break is next week, and I have oh so much to do before the end of the week. A project for Operating Systems consisting of adding a function to the kernel. My partner and I have a good start, but we’re stuck at the moment so it’ll have to wait until after we can ask our questions tomorrow in class. In Language Structures I have to create an interpreter for a language called “Jay”. A lot of code is given to us to get us going, but I still haven’t started the part I have to do. Doh. Both projects are due Friday. Oh yeah, I also have a test on Friday.

Not to mention things apart from school. Seeing as I’ll be done here in May and I have to take all my stuff from this place to the next is my little car, I also need to pack up a bunch of stuff and take it down to my brother’s place over spring break. That way, all I’ll have left here are things I need for the rest of the year, and space won’t be as much of a problem.

Tomorrow I will hopefully get my car fixed. We found out it has a leaking brake cylinder, and I don’t really feel like driving down to Indy before getting it fixed. I’m getting help from a friend, and I don’t think he’ll charge me too much for the labor. I already bought the part - it was only $12. Hopefully that will fix the problem.

So what am I doing? Talking on IM and procrastinating! Obviously.

So, due to my total lack of imagination I took a name suggestion from a friend.

Henceforth, my snake shall be known as Hunter.

Let it be so.

Prayer and Praise with IWU (another local Christian college) had just gotten out and I was heading back to my room. As I was approaching my door, I heard a phone ringing, and it seemed to be coming from my room. Odd, I thought. My phone doesn’t normally ring. But, it’s Sunday, so maybe Abby is calling.

Much to my surprise, it was a friend from back in Massachusetts. Now granted, we send emails back and forth, and talk on Instant Messenger now and again, but a phone call was a wonderful surprise. Karyn is one of the few people that I actually keep in touch with from my time in MA, one of the few that actually took the effort to make sure I was still alive over the past few years even though I’m horrible at returning the favor.

So here we were on the phone, and it was just neat. We caught up a bit more on life, remembered old times, and just had an overall good conversation.

Thank you God for all your blessings on me!

because I got a snake! It’s a Columbian Red Tail Boa, and it’s awesome. It’s only 2-3 months old, and I’ve had it 10 days now. It’s still really small - only about 2 feet long. I’m not sure if it’s a male or a female, but at this point that doesn’t really matter. I can find out later.

It hasn’t eaten yet, but that should come with time. Someone on a forum suggested leaving it alone for a couple of weeks to let it get acclimated to its new home. Won’t be easy to do, but I guess I’ll try. I think I don’t quite have it warm enough either, so I’m gonna try to get a heat pad as soon as I can. I’ve been told not to worry though. Time is all it needs.

I still need to come up with a name though, so let me know if you have any brilliant ideas!