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Phew. Last day of Chico. I am sitting once again in a room full of teachers attempting to learn how to use a digital camera to take pictures, create powerpoint presentations, and today: make panoramic photos in virtual reality. Today will be a bit more fun I am guessing with this whole VR stuff, but it is still pretty boring. The kids I was working with yesterday were awsome to hang out with, but Kaila isn't here today. I am left alone to fend for myself in a room full of teachers. Even the teachers's teachers are boring. :)
So anyway, I will be going to Washington state tomorrow by way of Oregon to visit my aunt. You know? My family - as screwed up as it may be - has pretty fun family reunions. A few years ago we went to the Oregon Coast, we have been to North Dakota (with multiple hundreds of dollars of fireworks) and now the San Juan Islands. We shall see. I leave tomorrow morning (I guess...) and get back August 10th which is a sunday I believe. After that, I have only one week left of summer before I go back to school. SCHOOL!!!
Well that sucks.
CHICO IS BORING!!!
hey, i just uploaded a picture of me on a rock about to jump off while my friend andrew watches... it is pretty cool, however it is at 7x zoom on a digital camera, so it is pretty poor quality. check it out. [me on rock]
I am at chico state at the moment in a class as a teachers aide for a class on beginning with computers (this is called a program) We did our presentation today in front of some ~200 teachers. After that got all overwith, I was given a job as a TA. Today I am in this beginner class, tomorrow I hope to maybe get in some sort of web design class or something.
I guess the only reason I am really updating this because I am bored. The really sad part about it all is that it started at one oclock I believe :)
I get one breath of fresh air in between going on my houseboat trip and going to chico for some four days. Oh, and I found out that we aren't staying down there but coming back every night at 2 in the morning and going back at eight the next day. Should be fun.
I got back at 2 this morning from that houseboat trip. I am physically drained. It took everything I had left just to get up this morning. And now I am at school (once again) getting ready to go to chico. I am ready to pass out. And whenever I sit still I feel like I am on a boat...
The Observer | Magazine | The last resort (part one)
As pewterbird put it: "maybe your parents were nice to just send you to oregon"
I couldn't have put it better myself, but I'm still bitter about it. I still get made fun of. I still have nightmares. I still hate it. You can't get over something like that too easily...
My life is officially going to be hell this weekend. As of yesterday morning I thought I was going to my cabin... which is pretty fun unless you go as the only child, as I would have. As it turns out, last night at ten o'clock we got a call from some of our friends who live in Novato. The father and son are going... get this... FISHING this weekend and invited me to go along with them. Being a good kid and wanting to keep friction with my dad down to a minimum, I said yes. Now I get to go to some lake for the ENTIRE weekend (as in until monday perhaps) starting today at 3:30. Fishing. The only cool thing about it is that the name of the town the lake is by is called Weed. I wonder...
Anyway. I took some pictures of me and some kids setting up the computers @ tech, I will post those either Monday or Tuesday, when I get back. If I get back, more like it... Wish me luck. Until then, more computers. (Right now I am on a dell with a 2.6 Ghz processor, 1Gb PC3200 DDR RAM, dual 120GB hard drives, gigabit LAN, DVD burner, ... well, you get the idea)
I ditched (sort of...) second period today to help my school (new tech) set up some of the new computers they all got the last few days. Me and Jay set up twenty p4 dell boxes for the first time... ever! It was really cool, but that's not the best part! There is this graduate from napa that was there that was helping with the network, and turns out he goes to san jose state with my sister, and they are like best buds! It was way random, but way cool. This guy is also VERY smart, and I got to work with him for the better part of my second period. I am thinking I am going to ditch all day tomorrow to work with him again... and learn! There are some smart people with resources at my school, I just need to figrure out how to tap in to them. Plus nick asked me if i wanted a server, just out of the blue! I am going to try and get it. Anyway, I am way stoked about all this, so I thought I had to post. I need sleep. I didn't sleep much last night. Nor, I suspect, will I tonight either.
I am at a computer lab in the Anderson High School library. I told my group members not to let me in front of a computer. I tried. But it is like a disease.
It is funny. We ar doing research on addictive substances; our groups' being tobacco. Now I sit in front of a computer with some administrative priviledges... basically just enough to get to a run box where I get my cmd and have my portal to the digital world known as anderson.auhsd.ca.us
May god have mercy on their souls...
I haven't been home for an evening since last thursday. Yeah, I have been with Stassia, James, Jack, Chelsey, and whoever else wanted to show up just chillin' doin our thing. Tonight my sister was with us; I was teaching her how to drive the ghetto mobile, a stick shift. It was great fun after when we were all driving as a group crazy through the streets of good ol' Redding. Again, I'd post more, but who knows who is reading this (parents?) :)
Anyway, I want to stay home tomorrow and work on the car, plus I might get a job at circuit city (well, I turned in an application, anyway). If not, I picked up yet another app for sunset market, so we shall see.
Well, i just wanted to update, for I haven't updated in a while. Good night.
Life is good.
Other than the fact that yesterday was the fourth of july and I got up at eight the morning after. But yesterday was awsome. I went with Stassia, Jack, and Chelsey to watch the fireworks from the convention center, where we met up with Richard. I guess word has it that there were some fifteen thousand people there. But for good reason. The explosions were right above our heads; in fact, some of the burning leftovers were landing no more than 30 feet from us and set the grass on fire. Anyway, we all went our separate ways after, battling the thousands of people to get across the freeway to our cars (which were parked quite a ways away). On the way out, the traffic didn't ley up until we got on to Churn Creek from Cypress if you know where that is. It was great fun.
Plus, I don't think I have posted this yet, but I got 2 new speakers for my ghetto mobile (see previous post). They are 6.5 inch infinity something-or-theothers. The same day Stassia got four new speakers and a new deck. We all installed her speakers for her at James' uncles shop (The back speakers are the best!) but the deck had to have pro. installation for some reason (I blame it on ford). So I had new speakers, she had a new deck that wasn't being used, so I "borrowed" her deck for a day to "test" it out for her. All I can say is... it works! I wish I had taken a picture, it was rad. But anyway, we all decided that we are going to soup up that car, paint it and put some better stuff in it. Like where the engine goes or something... :) Actually, Jack said a new, better placed air intake for starters. Plus I want subs now :) Budget permitting, of course. Pictures as it happens, I assure you!
I'm going back to bed, so peace.
