I got chocolates

Hmmm... my dad got offered a job in Texas and in Roanoke right nearby... He's supposed to make up his mind which job he's going to accept by today. Can't wait to hear from him or Mom!

I love my parents. They sent me chocolate for Valentine's Day. =D =D

A description of my first name

I stumbled upon a website that attempted to tell me who I am by knowing my first name, and here are the results:

Description of Your First Name of: Adam

The following brief summary describes only a few qualities of your first name. There are many additional factors (legal name, nicknames, family surname, combined names, previous names, business signature, and, very importantly, your inner potential or birthpath as determined from your date of birth) that create and mold your entire personality - and your entire life.

The name Adam creates the desire for harmony with others, but we point out that it causes a blunt expression that alienates others. This name, when combined with the last name, can frustrate happiness, contentment, and success, as well as cause health weaknesses in the fluid systems, and tension or accidents to the head.

The name of Adam gives you the desire to meet and mix socially and to create congenial circumstances for everyone. However, all too often, you express yourself in a matter-of-fact or awkward way that results in your good intentions being misunderstood. If you are in sales work, you could do well because of your friendly personality, interest in people, and desire to please. You prefer situations that allow a degree of independence, but are not too demanding in work-load or responsibility.

Ummm...
I'm definitely antisocial. I have no desire to "meet and mix". I probably wouldn't do so well in sales work. At least they were correct about the situations I prefer to be in, but that's not hard to guess. That's like me reading your mind right here across the internet and saying that you sometimes enjoy sitting down, taking a break from everything work-related that you're doing, and relaxing.

American Society

Hello again. Today I was doing some thinkin'.... Man, Valentine's Day can be a really depressing day for those of us singles. Heh, I need a girlfiend.

Anyways, I was tryin' to think of why I don't have one. Not only do I not know where to meet any girls, I don't know what to say or how to approach them. Being shy sucks. Then I was thinking maybe I'm just really boring, too. I really don't do much. But I had watched this show on really late night TV the other night where John Travolta was being interviewed by this acting professor in front of an acting class or something. John Travolta had said that every single person is interesting to some degree, it's just a matter of finding out what's interesting. I think that maybe it's not usually the things that I've done that are interesting, but perhaps it's my personality and the ideas that I come up with...

On a completely different note, today was my sister's birthday. I was tryin' to think of what she might be when she got older. What might her major be? Would it be computer engineering, like mine? Or would it be something totally different, like teaching?

Then my thought process went off on some wild tangent. What the heck is there to do in this world for work? As human beings, we need food and sleep to survive. Shelter is nice, too. Now, society has said for a long time that if you don't work, you don't eat. When this philosophy originated, if not everyone helped, not enough food would be produced, and people would starve to death. Nowadays, though, food harvesting is so advanced that not very much manpower is required.

So now we're all stuck trying to find some work to do, and a lot of us have to do stupid, meanlingless, mundane jobs. The point of people's jobs is no longer to contribute to the survival of the community, but it's to make progress for the sake of progress. We're gaining new useless technology every day. The point of this new technology is to save people time and effort so that they can do more useless work in a more time-efficient manner. People's lives are becoming increasingly more and more busy for absolutely no reason!

Also, so many people are influenced by this emphasis on business that the sole reason that some people live is to make money. What the hell is the point of this? If a person grows old and has spent his whole life earning a fortune, does he plan on spending it all before he dies? No, it's so he can live in a nice house and have a nice car while he's working his butt off. In my opinion, this is stupid! He's not increasing the quality of his life...I can almost guarantee that he's too busy to be any more happy than the average guy a few blocks away.

So why am I a computer engineer? Well, partly because I can't "sit on my ass" for a living (like the Office Space guy). Another reason is because I love computers, and yet another reason is because I like critical thinking.... However, I think my ideal job would be just to simply learn. If I could read books and self-teach myself things and teach others what I've taught myself, that'd rule. Yup, I'd be an old-school philosopher. Too bad those don't exist anymore... Who needs them when there is systemized, specialized education...education that teaches people how to play their part in this hellish cycle of life...

Meh. Good night.

These projects bite.

Ugh, I hate projects.  I have two C++ projects due this week.  Lemme tell ya, that ain't happenin'.  I also have a Digital Design project due next week, which I'm working on now.  On top of those, I have to catch up on a lot of Electronics reading.  (-.-;)

Basically tonight I'm not sleeping.

Summer and fall '04

Well, I haven't updated this thing in ages.  So I guess I'll breeze through my life since I last updated.

My sophomore year here at Virginia Tech ended.  I went home and found a job as a computer technician, since I definitely wasn't going back to that hellish theatre or back to the doctor's office to alphabetize files.  Now, this place worked me 46 hours a week, which was pretty nice.  However, I only made 6.15 an hour, which blows.  No computer technician should be getting a salary that compares to a Burger King employees.  However, I would rather work as a computer technician than at Burger King, so whatever.

I also started playing Final Fantasy XI that summer.  Let me tell you what, this game is addicting.  Since I started playing this game I stopped playing Warcraft III and haven't even looked back.  Even now, I play this game every chance I get.  Spare time on the weekends?  Ooooh, FFXI time!  No, I don't go out anymore...

I went over to my grandma's house in Oklahoma over the summer, too.  I have one of the coolest grandmas of all time.  She spoiled Aaron and me.  Also while I was there, I talked to them about the trouble I was having at school, and they suggested that I might have ADD.

Over the summer, I found out that my old ex-girlfriend, Elaine, moved back in town.  Neato...  It was my mom who told me that she moved back in town, so naturally I finally told my mom what happened between us.  Hmmm... and I saw her once at Olive Garden before I left back for school.

Now, this year I got an apartment to live in!  Woohoo!  Anthony Graham is my roomate.  He's pretty cool.

Halfway into the semester I finally get my parents to get me a prescription for my ADD.  It helped, but since I was already in such deep crap in one class, I couldn't pull myself out.  So, I ended up doing not so well in Digital Design, but I got my first A since I've been here in Prob and Stat!  Hurray!

Over the winter, I worked some more.

Yup, that's about it.  Now maybe I can start updating this thing again without there being a huge friggin hole in the middle.

A miserable couple of days

yeah im in a bad mood

it's raining, which generally just brings my mood level to less than chipper in the first place (for reasons unknown to me), and going to the bank for the 2nd time and not being able to deposit my check just ticks me off

i get off work too late to deposit my check thru the window, so i have to use the atm...which i have never done before

so yesterday i go to the bank with the envelope that my paycheck came in, and a pen.  i insert my card into the atm, and go to get my check out of the envelope, and discover that there is no check in the envelope.  i return home to discover that it had fallen out onto the floor beside my table...

and today i return to the bank only to discover that i had no pen and could not sign the back or fill in my pin number on the envelope

Lack of updates

oi, its been awhile since ive updated, but its ok, i have a fish