I've been having major economic problems and for once, it's not my fault. My boss for CTS forgot to file my timesheet so I didn't get paid last Thursday. This has been causing all sorts of problems for me such as not being able to pay the insurance money to my dad, my account went negative and I was charged $50 for it and I don't know if i'm goign to be able to pay my credit card bill in time which would in turn charge me even more!!! I'm trying to get ahold of the person who is supposed to be giving me a check but she isn't responding and I'm trying to get ahold of Denise at Bank of America to remove the charges because they aren't my fault. Unfortunetly I'm in class right now so I can't do anything!


And to make matters worse, Chris locked me out of the room this morning when I went to go take a shower and didn't take his cell phone with him. I was late to class and didn't get a chance to eat breakfast because of the douchebag (and this time it's not a nickname!) I had to get Spencer to get me a lock-out key.

I have two more projects I have to get done this semester in addition to all of my finals. An essay for ENG and a statistical project for MAT. 

I just want this semester to end! I don't particularly want to go home, I just don't want to work anymore! I wish I could go from today to Christmas back to January 21st.

Oh and before my parents start getting mad at me not wanting to go home it's because of the condition of my room, not you them. I don't feel like going back to that dusty, moldy, horrible place to be. I can't breathe there and it's just miserable.


AHHHHHHH!!!

So I have way too much to get done for the next two weeks. My ISC professor just assigned a 5 page research paper due next Thurs (12/11) and on the same day gave us ANOTHER assignment to be done by tomorrow. ALSO, I have to do an assignment for Math in which I have to do a statistical study on people and that's due the last day of class (12/12). There is also going to be another essay for English before the end of class, but she hasn't assigned it yet.

Chris was complaining about all the projects he has to do instead of finals, well I have to do all these projects AND I have finals in every class! I don't know how I'm going to make it to Christmas!!

AHHH!!!!!

Oh and I'm working in the Snygg lab right now and it's crazy busy. There is only one printer and there is about 10 or so people standing around it trying to get their papers. It's kind of funny watching people scramble through stacks of paper and getting angry about it. I'm just sitting here typing away lol.

Sigh...and my Ambie is very very sick. Everyone wish that she gets well soon!!


It'll be a miracle if I make it to Christmas without killing myself!

Wow, the lab is busy today! People rushing to get their end of semester projects printed. I feel more like a Printing Assistant today rather than a Computer Lab Assistant!

Thanksgiving weekend went ok. I'm really starting to hate my bedroom though. For all the positive aspects of being at home, the condition of my room takes away three. First off, it's dusty and moldy which drives my asthma insane, I wasn't able to take a full breath all weekend long. Also, because of how dry the air is, I wake up every morning with a totally dry mouth, tongue, and lips. Sorry Mom and Dad but I'm beginning to hate coming back home! :)

Amber made a tofu turkey which I really enjoyed, but she didn't like too much it seems. The whole nation got Rick Rolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade which was really funny.

Black Friday at Walmart was crazy. People running everywhere grabbing things. I'm glad I was behind the register and not acting as crowd control! Some TVs actually got broken in all the madness. People really will do anything to get a deal...sheesh.

I spent the rest of my Friday with Amber and her Mom installing my new car stereo. My old radio was shot, so Amber gave me the stereo that Dusty gave her to save for when she got her own car. The parts to install the thing cost me quite a bit, but I finally have a working radio again, and a CD player too!

On Saturday we went to visit Uncle Dan and Aunt Tracey to surprise Grandma Akers for her birthday in Morrisville. I was so happy to see them for the first time in YEARS! My cousins Max and Clare (although I'm sure they didn't remember us) seemed glad to see us as well.

Nothing important happened yesterday, all I did was spend the whole day packing and getting ready to come back here. Amber and I watched The House Bunny after we got everything done and put away.

This morning my first class was canceled. I was glad to get the e-mail last night about it. I only have 5 more ENG 220 and MAT 158 classes left and 4 MET 100, ISC 220, and CSC 120.

I've got a math test Wednesday. It's the last test before the final and if I don't do well (not GREAT, just OK) on it I might not get the minimum C+ to pass the class. I REALLY don't want to take this course again. I have to study tomorrow, just refresh my memory on this stuff. I understand a lot of it in class, but I never retain the information when I leave. As soon as I walk out of that classroom, I forget about everything. Sigh...

Well that's about everything....

23 Days Until Christmas!

Yeah I realize that I haven't updated in a long time but there hasn't been anything interesting at all going on recently. I spent all day yesterday working on my paper for English 220. I successfully proved that you can do a 5 and a half page research paper in one day with no previous knowledge on it. I changed my topic right before I even started. I was going to write about Sarah Palin but after realizing how difficult that was actually going to be, I changed my topic to be about how maps are beneficial to presidential elections.

We're going home tomorrow for Thanksgiving break. I can't wait to finally have access to WiFi again. Oh and see my family too I guess...>.>

This will be my first thanksgiving as a vegetarian, and I'm excited about it. Amber can't wait to cook a whole bunch of vegetarian dishes and I can't wait to eat them lol.

I'm at work right now with an hour left to go. I'm so bored and have nothing to do. I brought my DS with me to play, but I don't really want to for fear of getting strange looks by the students here. It's bad enough I'm sitting in the lab with my Nerd Herd shirt on typing in my Livejournal, to see me playing my DS, and Pokemon Ranger 2 nonetheless, is bound to get me ridiculed.

At least the TalkRadar podcast keeping my entertained on my iPod.

We have practice tonight for Boys Down the Hall. We have three upcoming performances and we're working hard so we sound great. We're currently working on learning a new song, Irish Blessing. Jeremy found a new guy who wanted to join us and was supposed to come tonight, but because of a family emergency, we won't see him until after break.

I really don't want to pack up my stuff tomorrow, it's such a pain to unhook my Wii and stuff to bring it home. Especially my Guitar Hero World Tour set. The guitars are easy to carry around, but now I have this big drum set to bring home with me as well along with my laptop, clothes, the gerbs, and whatever else I need....AHHH!!!!!

I'm not being allowed to be the late-night DRO next semester at Lakeside. Even though I'm one of the best ones they have, apparently because the managers have it out for me, they've requested to Shannon that I not be DRO. That's ok, I'm applying to be a Computer Technician in Scales hall for next semester which is the exact same job I already do for CTS. If I get that, I'm quitting lakeside. If not, I'll still have all my CTS hours for next semester, and I'll have to be a late-night server for lakeside which I'm really sick of working late-night. I never have time to get anything done when I'm working at late-night. All time evening time is sucked away by working then and it really sucks.

Anyway, I'm sick of ranting and I'm done now.

BLAH

Well here's a new place to be updating from...I'm in Meteorology class right now being bored to tears by Professor Steve Skubis. I was awoken by Amber calling my cell phone and waking me up this morning. It was annoying at the time, but I'm grateful because I probably wouldn't have gotten up otherwise. She wanted to go to Cooper for breakfast. I got dressed a went off the Cooper (in the rain) to meet her. Now I'm sitting here on my laptop in what is pretty much the most boring class I'm taking this semester. It's amazing, Skubis is so loud and excited about this stuff, yet I'm still bored and it puts me to sleep lol.

I spent all yesterday working on my ENG 220 essay. It's due Wednesday and because of my procrastination, I hadn't started it yet. I've got the rough draft done, I just need to edit it for tomorrow.

We had Boys Down the Hall practice last night, it went alright, but we had a rude awakening by Emily. She's the girl who basically comes in and tells us how much we suck. We're stopping work on One for now, and we'll be coming back to it after we make Run Around Sue (which I'm doing the entire solo for now) and Take You Back (the new song we started on Saturday).

This past weekend was Family and Friends weekend and Amber's mom came up to visit us on Sunday. She took us to the movies and we saw Sex Drive. Afterwards we went to Price Chopper and got some groceries.

Last friday was the first home hockey game of the season. The US National Team took on the Oswego Lakers. They were assumed to be much better than us, but we did pretty well considering their skill. We were tied until the end of the game when it went into overtime. During overtime the visitors scored within 12 seconds to win the game. There is another game this friday, but i'll be attending something much better. Ball in the House is coming back for another concert on friday! There is also a statewide acapella conference being held here all day friday which leads up to their concert at night.

I won a free 1 month, 2 games out at a time subscription to GameFly (the video game equivalent to NetFlix) out of a pack of airheads the other day. I got my first two games yesterday: Wario Land: Shake It!  and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.

Class is almost over so I might as well wrap this up.

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I wasn't planning on going to English class today because Amy was going to Mississippi and we were just going to watch a movie that didn't really have anything to do with the upcoming essay and was just background information on what we've been learning in class. Amber and Kelly suggested that I just show up to class, sign in, and leave. Well I ended up doing just that, but it wasn't my choice. When I got to class (purposely late, I knew I wouldn't miss anything) the TA, Mandy, was struggling to get the DVD player to work. When she couldn't she tried to play the DVD on the computer. That didn't work either so she gave up, told us to sign the sign-in sheet and leave. I had to work (and am still here) at 10 in Snygg so I couldn't exactly go home. My flash drive was still in the computer I was using during my programming class luckily so I went and picked it up before waiting to punch in to work. Coincidentally, Alex (of Boys Down the Hall) was using the exact same computer. I think I confused the hell out of him when I ran in and grabbed the flash drive.

 I just got done watch Chuck 2x03 - Chuck vs. The Break-Up and it was awesome. This series just keeps getting better and better. Bryce (the guy who put the intersect in Chuck's head in the first place left him a pair of sunglasses in his room which, when put on, updated the intersect. I'm thinking that means even if they manage to rebuild the intersect, Chuck's still going to be more up-to-date and they're still going to need him (thus prolonging the series). It's funny, I'm sure the writers know what they're doing, but it always seems like each episode is going to be the last, or at least, they're numbered and won't last long. That's what I call good writing. It doesn't seem forced either. It doesn't seem like they are artificially prolonging the series either. It all flows really well.




 Oh, and House was also freaking awesome last night!  Wilson's back!



Gotta work tonight, probably gonna be a typical Wednesday night (extremely busy...ugh). Otherwise, that all I have to talk about.

Man...there has been nothing interesting at all going on recently which is why there has been a lack of updates. Pretty much the most exciting thing that has happened all week is that I got Mega Man 9 Monday and holy crap is it hard. Gone are the days where I can just breeze through the 8-bit Mega Man games in a couple hours. It's taking countless number of hours and DEATHS to get through each stage. Especially when it comes to Wily's stages at the end. I got to the second stage boss, died and ran out of lives. Frustrated I saved and quit which actually sucks because if you continue, you can pick right back up on that same stage; but if you go to the stage select screen or quit, you have to start back at the first level (of Wily's castle), which was hard enough to get through! Oh well, if games were meant to be beaten in a day, they wouldn't be as fun right?

Last Saturday Amber, Chris, Jessica, and I went along with Kelly, Kevin, Russ, and two of his friends to Trexx in Syracuse. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a gay bar. Yet, it didn't seem THAT gay when we were there. I was expecting, I don't know, a lot more gay men. It just seemed like a regular bar to me, well, except for the Drag Queen dancing there lol. Jessica got sick and was throwing up for most of the night so they (Chris too) basically sat out in the car for most of the night. Sure sounds like a fun evening to me. We went to the B-Ville diner afterwards which is kind of funny because the Vanguard had their show in B-Ville hours earlier. Chris drove to Syracuse initially, and I drove home because he had to "attend" to Jessica. I had to stop multiple times on the way home because she had to throw up. Did I mention this whole pregnancy thing is really fucking annoying? Anyway...

As for this week, there has been literally nothing interesting happening. I've been going to class and going to work and not much else. I'm at work now, as updating from work seems to be the most convenient for me. We have our first practice for Boys Down the Hall tomorrow. We should be learning Chasing Cars, so long as Scott can manage to teach it to all of us. We don't have the sheet music for it.

This weekend is the Harvest of Sound, the Vanguard's home show. Not only do I get the see the marching band show in it's finished form for the first time, I also get my new cell phone that day. I'm finally due for my upgrade and I'll be getting a black LG Shine when I come into Auburn for the weekend. Yay!

My classes this semester are going really really well.

ENG 220: Amy Shore is the funniest/most awesome teacher I've ever had (with my SOC100 teacher coming in 2nd). She makes fun of everyone (in a nice way, kind of) and makes the class really interesting. The only real assignments we're going to have in that class are three major essays. Not looking forward to that, but she said she's going to make it as easy as possible for us.

ISC 220: Despite being very hard to understand, Professor Yoon is a great teacher. I admit, I was skeptical about having her in a classroom after taking her online ISC 110 course last semester with mistyped questions and unclear details, but having her in a classroom is much much better. She explains everything extremely well and makes everything very easy to understand. She's really giving me a good idea what Information Science is all about, and I really like it! I still don't really know what kinds of jobs are available in the IS field, but with all the internships Oswego offers, I shouldn't have too many problems finding something to do with my degree!

MAT 158: Stats. I hate math, but Professor Mosbo somehow knows how to make it interesting, kind of. The main thing that annoys me about the class is that he assigns homework but never checks, grades, or goes over it. I hate professors who do that, it makes it a lot harder to learn the concepts. Other than that the concepts in the class aren't too hard, I've been exposed to many of them before in previous math classes and he's pretty funny and nice too.

CSC 120: Ugh, don't even get me started on this class. It's so friggin' easy. This is the BASIC level programming class that I am being forced to take for my ISC major. I've already completed the higher level programming classes and now I'm forced to take two steps backwards. I know all the information already and it makes the class so easy. Professor Bosch is great though. He knows that I , along with a couple other guys know all the info already and offers bonus points on the assignments if we do more than what's expected of us, which isn't too hard considering anything basic I can add to the project nets me the extra points. This is the kind of programming class I wish they started me with in my freshman year. I might have still liked programming today, but now it's too late. This class is structured similar to the Visual Basic classes I took in high school. Everyone is sitting at a computer at all times while he gives directions in class, we're sitting there programming right along with him. It's very hands-on and that's the best way I learn. Oh well...I'll get an easy A in the class anyway...

MET 100: What can I possibly say about Professor Skubis...he's a huge science nerd. He's goofy and LOVES weather perhaps a bit too much. He spends half the class showing weather maps and forecasting the weather for the next few days and doesn't start giving notes until way over half-way through. He's a really exciting teacher, but somehow I still manage to fall asleep in his class until we get to the note-taking portion. Man that guy loves hurricanes....


That's pretty much everything I have to say for now.

This is Josh Farrell, signing off.

-Goodbye-

I thought I was supposed to work 11 - 2 at Penfield today, but when I got there, there was someone already working there. I got ahold of Kris, the person in charge of the CLA's she told me she gave the shift to someone else because I originally said I couldn't work it but forgot to update the schedule online. So apparently I only work Sun and Mon.

I've been on a Mega Man X4 kick recently because I've been watching this one guy on youtube's videos and he's doing a playthrough so I hooked up my PS2 so I could play it too. I beat all the 8 "robot masters" in a matter of a couple hours which I could decide was really good or pathetic. Either way, I had to stop playing to go to work.

Work way busier than usual but I did'n't think it was too bad.

I'm still loving Google Chrome BTW.

Amy Shore (my ENG 220 teacher) is still one insane teacher and statistics is pretty easy (let's hope it says like that...)