had a new uber-random thought today, brought on by talking with fatespawn about adding more guppies to ifrit's tank:
it might not be cool in the traditional sense of the word, but it would nonetheless be damn cool if the males of our species had that guppy and gerbil-ish inclination to eat their young. why on earth do i think this, you ask? when i was musing on how this would transform our society, the thing that came to mind were those silly women's magazines. instead of seeing features like "15 new moves in bed he'll go wild for!" and "swimsuits to flatter YOUR figure!" imagine seeing "pregnant? 10 places to hide young that he'll never look!" and "make YOUR offspring taste really bad!"
i dunno, it brought a smile to my face.
on a more erm, normal note, today and yesterday have both been really good. wednesday i didn't have to present in art class (which means i'll have a chance to be fully prepared when i do present on monday - yes!) and had a good day at darden. am still reading the silly tome on C#, but it's a bit more hands-on now, and i took a really long break to take a walk outside (beautiful day out!). a coworker showed me a trail (rife with those boucy little joggers with their horse-like flanks and ponytails) back behind darden. it goes through woods and apparently circles around a lake at some point... there was even a nifty place with old, mossy, ruin-like stone walls where he took some panoramic photographs. and then i came back and worked on splitting a string in flash to form a two-dimensional array - prep for future work on integrating flash with database stuff. i think in doing that exercise i've been able to demonstrate that my level of flash knowledge (and coding knowledge in general) exceeds their expectations. and that feels good. also, i'd forgotten that i really do enjoy scripting/coding. got into that flow where you lose track of time and are focused purely on the task at hand, and it felt really, really good. i haven't been able to do that for a while. makes me feel a lot more optimistic about my time at darden. i've got this huge non-engineering-schooler inferiority complex, and sometimes i think i forget that even though i'm not at engineering-school level or experience as a programmer, i'm still good at it and pick up quick.
and today... has been gorgeous out. lighting design met outside - dull class today, but a couple of stage combat folks were going at it with their swords a little ways away and that made it all better. perhaps i'll get back into rapier fencing this summer... i did enjoy that. and since darden's right next to north grounds (the fabled "fourth gym" of uva), it should be easy enough for me to fit in workouts right after work in such a way that they don't conflict with other fun stuff. (speaking of which, i'm still strong even though i missed a week. yay!)
got a good amount done today too. i think i'm just about definite on the apartment stephen and i have been looking at for the summer - is nifty, has four big rooms all to just the two of us. only difficulty may be the ending date - august 1st - must speak with parents and figure out how that's gonna work. and get going on subleasing the other apartment post-haste.
i have gotten seven compliments on my hair today, at least two of which were from complete strangers, including a random old fellow in a car who called out the passenger side window (looked like he was with family though, so it wasn't creepy-like). but the saga of unpurpling continues - have realized that since my coworkers are forever playing with my hat and asking about my hair and such now, the purple with black tips thing probably wouldn't come off well. i really don't want to antagonize my supervisor. also talked a bit with my lovely roommate - she's double majoring in music and commerce, which gives her a good split perspective on this kind of stuff. so yes, i'm thinking i'd better get back to a natural color. and i'm not gonna do black all the way - just isn't my thing. which makes it all a bit trickier... the suck is that "corrective coloring," done by somebody who knows what they're doing, costs upwards of $70 dollars. though the calculating part of me knows that my parents would probably be more than happy to chip in for such a cause - heh. but yeah... am thinking of going with red, maybe - natural red, not crazywild red - cause damned if i'm going to pay $70 just to go back to my everyday hair color...
procured a digital camera when there were none to be had, and got fatespawn and myself tickets for dawningness tomorrow night. and had free ben and jerry's... mint chocolate chip. mmm. and taught a little class to brown people about intro flash stuff. and tomorrow's friday.
i've been so busy lately, it's crazy. and this weekend has quite a few bookings filled already too. didn't get to even check livejournal for the longest time, cause i'm paranoid about being online for recreational/social-type stuff at work. mid-morning today i finally got to read through all my latest friends entries - i was a good full page and a half behind. unacceptable! and the silly libraries at this university don't let you access completely innocuous porn sites... hmph.
at any rate, feels really good to be home and have time to be at my ease online. ahh.
it might not be cool in the traditional sense of the word, but it would nonetheless be damn cool if the males of our species had that guppy and gerbil-ish inclination to eat their young. why on earth do i think this, you ask? when i was musing on how this would transform our society, the thing that came to mind were those silly women's magazines. instead of seeing features like "15 new moves in bed he'll go wild for!" and "swimsuits to flatter YOUR figure!" imagine seeing "pregnant? 10 places to hide young that he'll never look!" and "make YOUR offspring taste really bad!"
i dunno, it brought a smile to my face.
on a more erm, normal note, today and yesterday have both been really good. wednesday i didn't have to present in art class (which means i'll have a chance to be fully prepared when i do present on monday - yes!) and had a good day at darden. am still reading the silly tome on C#, but it's a bit more hands-on now, and i took a really long break to take a walk outside (beautiful day out!). a coworker showed me a trail (rife with those boucy little joggers with their horse-like flanks and ponytails) back behind darden. it goes through woods and apparently circles around a lake at some point... there was even a nifty place with old, mossy, ruin-like stone walls where he took some panoramic photographs. and then i came back and worked on splitting a string in flash to form a two-dimensional array - prep for future work on integrating flash with database stuff. i think in doing that exercise i've been able to demonstrate that my level of flash knowledge (and coding knowledge in general) exceeds their expectations. and that feels good. also, i'd forgotten that i really do enjoy scripting/coding. got into that flow where you lose track of time and are focused purely on the task at hand, and it felt really, really good. i haven't been able to do that for a while. makes me feel a lot more optimistic about my time at darden. i've got this huge non-engineering-schooler inferiority complex, and sometimes i think i forget that even though i'm not at engineering-school level or experience as a programmer, i'm still good at it and pick up quick.
and today... has been gorgeous out. lighting design met outside - dull class today, but a couple of stage combat folks were going at it with their swords a little ways away and that made it all better. perhaps i'll get back into rapier fencing this summer... i did enjoy that. and since darden's right next to north grounds (the fabled "fourth gym" of uva), it should be easy enough for me to fit in workouts right after work in such a way that they don't conflict with other fun stuff. (speaking of which, i'm still strong even though i missed a week. yay!)
got a good amount done today too. i think i'm just about definite on the apartment stephen and i have been looking at for the summer - is nifty, has four big rooms all to just the two of us. only difficulty may be the ending date - august 1st - must speak with parents and figure out how that's gonna work. and get going on subleasing the other apartment post-haste.
i have gotten seven compliments on my hair today, at least two of which were from complete strangers, including a random old fellow in a car who called out the passenger side window (looked like he was with family though, so it wasn't creepy-like). but the saga of unpurpling continues - have realized that since my coworkers are forever playing with my hat and asking about my hair and such now, the purple with black tips thing probably wouldn't come off well. i really don't want to antagonize my supervisor. also talked a bit with my lovely roommate - she's double majoring in music and commerce, which gives her a good split perspective on this kind of stuff. so yes, i'm thinking i'd better get back to a natural color. and i'm not gonna do black all the way - just isn't my thing. which makes it all a bit trickier... the suck is that "corrective coloring," done by somebody who knows what they're doing, costs upwards of $70 dollars. though the calculating part of me knows that my parents would probably be more than happy to chip in for such a cause - heh. but yeah... am thinking of going with red, maybe - natural red, not crazywild red - cause damned if i'm going to pay $70 just to go back to my everyday hair color...
procured a digital camera when there were none to be had, and got fatespawn and myself tickets for dawningness tomorrow night. and had free ben and jerry's... mint chocolate chip. mmm. and taught a little class to brown people about intro flash stuff. and tomorrow's friday.
i've been so busy lately, it's crazy. and this weekend has quite a few bookings filled already too. didn't get to even check livejournal for the longest time, cause i'm paranoid about being online for recreational/social-type stuff at work. mid-morning today i finally got to read through all my latest friends entries - i was a good full page and a half behind. unacceptable! and the silly libraries at this university don't let you access completely innocuous porn sites... hmph.
at any rate, feels really good to be home and have time to be at my ease online. ahh.
Good luck with the apartment, and dont forget to post new pics of the hair when you finally decide on a color.
p.s. "pregnant? 10 places to hide young that he'll never look!" Thats going to make me smile all day.