Monday, March 31, 2008

Hmm...

Tomorrow evening could either:

a) Go over okay...nothing major happening, or

b) blow up in my face and destroy my life.

Tomorrow and Wednesday are conferences. And I'm so not gonna enjoy it...so if I do happen to die, I want my tombstone to read "Here lies Sean. Tried his best, now lies with the rest." lol jk

I might as well just shoot myself in the eye or other body part head now...just get it over with...

Current Music: "Pas De Cheval" - Panic At The Disco

Graphing Calc "game"

Thanks to my friend Kyle for letting me in on this piece of code.

What it is is a little program that, when executed, adds 1+1 over and over again until you tell it to stop. NOTE: this will only work if you have a TI graphing calculator, so plz check. Now, you go to PRGM, then go over to NEW. Type in an appropriate name, then hit ENTER. It then should go to the screen where you can begin coding. I'll provide little hints at the end to where you can find some of the expressions.

:DISP 1
:1->W
:While W<9999999999999999
:DISP W+1
:(W+1)->W
:END
:STOP

To get DISP, (while writing the code), press PRGM, scroll right to I/O, then go town to #5: Disp and press ENTER.
To get ->, press STO. (Usually located above the ON button.) When I say -> in the code, that means STO.
To get "while", press PRGM and then go down to #5: While and press ENTER.
To get the "<" symbol, press 2ND then MATH. Scroll down to #5: < and then press ENTER.
To get END, press PRGM, then scroll down to #7: END
To get STOP, press PRGM, then scroll down to #F: STOP

Press 2ND MODE (to quit) after that, and you're done! To execute the program, press PRGM, then navigate to (whatever name you gave it) under the "EXEC" column. Press ENTER. Beware of scrolling numbers! To stop it, press ON at any time, followed by the number "1" and "CLEAR".

Have fun! (I started it up in the middle of 5th hour, and by the time I got home, it had gotten to above 100,000.)

Current Music: "If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback

Saturday, March 29, 2008

I just got home from work...

Ugh. There was this one family that WOULD NOT LEAVE. I was like *in my mind* "OMG. Leave. Get. Out. Now." lol...I spent about half an hour washing dishes over a sink which was very poorly positioned. It was just low enough to make my back hurt like a bitch. Not to mention that the only tips that I got was $0.16. Yep. Enough gas money to get me...one centimeter? idk.

I'm looking forward *very much* to downloading Panic! At The Disco's new album "Pretty. Odd." on iTunes. The previews sound so good! Ryan+Brendon's voices are like pure gold. I'm also planning on downloading FOB's cover of "Beat It". It, too, sounded so good! Also, I'm gonna download Jesse McCartney's new album "Departure" when it comes out on April 1st.

Enough for now...time to go to bed. G'night!

Current Music: "Beat It" - Fall Out Boy cover & "Back In Black" - AC/DC

Well...

Turned out that I'm not doing anything fun like I promised in my last post. I ate breakfast, was on my laptop for only a little bit, took down some Christmas decorations (yes, they were still up...), and I'm now revising my junior research paper.

But I am going to be listening to my music while I'm at it! I don't know why, but music, no matter how loud or what genre, makes me concentrate better and helps me hone my ideas better. My teachers used to (and still do) scold me for using my iPod during class...oh well...

Current Music: "Give Me Novocaine" - Green Day
Current Mood: busy

Why am I up this early...?

I don't even see the sense in it. Saturdays are for sleeping in until you wake up when the sun hits you. Not for being up at 7:30 and updating your blog and being on YouTube! Grr...I just finished folding and putting away all my laundry....I'm bored! Someone please rescue me! Right now, I'm uploading a video to YouTube. It's of when Minority Funk played at our high school's BSU (black student union) talent show sometime in march. Hopefully, this'll get them some publicity...I want to go to at least one of their shows (like the one on April third)...

I've been getting into photography more and more lately...I'm considering just going downtown today after breakfast, and taking like 100 random pictures (I guess it'd technically be "people watching") and posting them up on facebook/myspace/photobucket or whatever. I already have over 100 "tech" images on Facebook, and I guess...I just like taking pictures. Videos are cool, too...the only ting is that I have to lower my camera's resolution so the videos aren't so large that YouTube won't let me upload them (or it takes too long). So I just might take today as a "take pictures of whatever" day. Hopefully, I'll get lots of good pictures, and I'll post the link or whatever here, along with the actual pics on whichever site.

Yesternight, my dad, my brother and I went to a "new" Mexican restaurant, Alicia's Mexican Deli (on St. Joe). It was pretty good! Then we went home and watched "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". Funny movie!

I kinda want to do something today before I have to go into work...maybe hang out at the mall or something. I just need to get out of the house. When you're up at 7:30 AM rolling up sock balls, then you know you have no life...lol. Maybe people could come into where I work as well? That'd be nice.

Current Music/Listening To: "Leavin'" - Jesse McCartney
Current Mood: hungry

Friday, March 28, 2008

Today was....interesting.

Certainly better than last night, at any rate. I was going to hang out with friends, but Robert has to go up north for a lawsuit (long story, don't ask), so he can't. So I have no plans thus far. I *really* want to hang out....I need to prove that I don't have a life! lol My cat seems strangely attracted to my wireless router, and the only reason that I can come up with is that she likes sitting on it because of the warmth.

I'm trying to re-build my iTunes library on my laptop, since it was wiped for the de-virus-ing. I tried the method of going into the "invisible" music folder on my iPod's hard drive and copying all those into iTunes, but I seem to be missing some songs. Either I missed a folder or two, or something else is up. I kinda really want to base my library onto my laptop, and not have it just reside on my iPod hard drive. I want to try out the free programs, but they either have some catch or limitation, or are ridden with viruses. Arrgh! Oh, the trouble...lol

I'm gonna go and eat at a new Mexican restaraunt...mmm!

Current Music/Listening To: "Harry Potter Puppet Pals: Wizard Swears"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTHmzMk0Cw

Thursday, March 27, 2008

No "Real" Post Tonight...

I...just can't do it right now. It's just a personal reason. I do, however, have a pic of my mom's cat on top of our wireless router. (Just to hold you guys off.)

Current Music: "Buy U A Drank" - T-Pain

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

My laptop is back!

Which means...a whole lot more updates (hopefully). So...today has actually been pretty good, which surprises me. I randomly thought of a great Scrubs quote today which made me burst out laughing during my chem test today: "Either he has a light bulb up his butt, or his colon has a really great idea..." Wow. That just totally made me laugh for some unknown reason. lol...probably 'cause it was funny!

I'm just eating dinner right now-leftover sub sandwich with some corn. Nothing out of the norm, just what I'm used to.

My car needs a wash...bad. When I came home from school today, I noticed that there was a layer of dust/mud stuff all over. So I wrote (with my finger) "WASH ME PLZ!" on the hood. I probably do have enough money to do so...just need to actually do it.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

My laptop...

apparently had some humongo-virus on it. How did I not know about this?!?!? Frag Center said that the virus, whatever it was, had actually eaten the partition that I had on it! I was like "wtf?" of course...I'll just keep the essentials on it: Microsoft Office, Firefox, iTunes, AIM, and maybe 1 or 2 others...I called them today and they said that they were just doing the system wipe today. It had taken them 2 days to do a FULL virus scan! I guess that...whatever it was, I won't be messing around with weird programs or other things in the future when I get it back.

I was talking to Jake today in trig class, and he said that Denny's (on Saginaw) was hiring. I might just go apply...I need the hours, and Jake said that hey were pretty flexible with your hours...the only downside would be that I'd go home smelling like syrup and grease...mmm!

I'm also going to start posting the little "Current Music" thingy at the ends of my posts now...I feel like I have something to share about my music tastes...

Current Music: "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" - Fall Out Boy

Monday, March 24, 2008

I suddenly have the urge to...do nothing.

Mhmm. That's right, folks!

So in 3rd hour, my government class was in the HP lab. I was sitting next to Amia, who was sitting next to Joel, and Angelica was sitting across from us. Amia suddenly starts rubbing my arm and "petting" me. So Angelica comes in and says how jealous she is (we're all kidding, of course!), and her & Amia start playfully arguing. Amia keeps on petting me, and suddenly says "I'm the mother of Sean's babies!!!!!" Joel turns around and is like "WTF?!?!?" We all burst out laughing...but wait! It's not over yet.

Amia AGAIN is petting my arm when suddenly, she grabs my graphing calculator (which I had out for no apparent reason), and SHOVES IT DOWN HER SHIRT. Joel and I about fall down in our chairs laughing, while Amia's just working like nothing's happening. I tell her I want it back, and she says "come and get it!" At that point, I just give up. I transfer Portable Firefox (more on that later) to Joel's flash drive, and when I try to hand it back to him, Amia grabs that and sticks it down her shirt, as well! (We have hence christened his flash drive "the Boobdrive")! I just give up and stand up to walk out. She does, as well, and Joel tries to hold her back. We wrestle her to the ground, and I get my calculator back, but Joel doesn't get his flash drive back. (I talked to Amia 4th hour, and she still hadn't given it back! lol)

I found something amazing out today! If I boot Portable Firefox from one of my (many) USB flash drives, I can bypass the school filters and go to myspace, youtube, facebook, etc. It only works on the PCs, though (although I'll have to try it on the Macs). Hooray for me!

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Last night was fun...ha.

Yeah...I went to Harli's surprise party last night, even though her birthday is really today. Oh well! I came to her house, then she was supposed to be dropped off by 4:15 (I arrived at about 3:45 or so). The people that I knew were Mike Davis, Matt Johnson, Jen Bisel, Jen (last name unknown) and another person...sry. I got the perfect video of her walking through her front door! And from then on, I took a ton of pics and a vid of her blowing her candles on her cake. I'm going to burn her a CD of all the birthday pics and videos...after we ate cake (MMM!), we all went out into her front yard and had a snowball fight. Most of us had no jacket on...oh well! Her brothers/sisters/cousins are so evil! They pelted me with snow so hard...well, so did everybody else!

After we gave up on the snowball fight, we all decided to go see a movie at LM6. We wanted to see Drillbit Taylor, so we all called our parents and I called LM6 to see about the times. The next one was at 7:30, and it was about 6:42. Mike Davis had to do some chores before he could go, so Bobby took him and some other people to finish his chores faster. Meanwhile, my mom drove me, Sarah and Harli to the movies and she gave me money. Yay! lol...We went into the movie, and about 10 minutes after it started, the other people finally came in...lol.

We saw the movie, and it was GOOD! The evil bully with the gray tanktop was so damn hot!!! Sarah and Harli both agreed...wow. The guys sitting next to us were hot, too...again, Sarah and Harli agreed. See, we agree on so much...

Then my mom took us home...I fell into bed, and then went to sleep. The end.

And that's how my Saturday was!

Saturday, March 22, 2008

My car is feeling much better now.

So I just came back from Valvoline and Murray's Auto Parts, where my car got an oil change (that's overdue) and new windshield wipers for both the left and right front windshield. The right one's rubber is cracking (and thus leaving streaks) and the left one fell apart when I took my car through the car wash a few days ago. It came apart (the metal from the rubber) and it was fixable, but I needed both new ones so I just got them. Actually, my dad paid for both the oil change and the wipers.

I also got the Wavo Band Booster newsletter today, and included is the itinerary. Some of the places we're going (On the DC trip) include: Hilton Crystal City Hotel (our hotel), Arlington National Cemetery, US Holocaust Museum, Union Station (dinner), Hard Rock Cafe (OMG!!! breakfast), Smithsonian Museums, Old Post Office, the Capitol, UNO's (union station, dinner), and H2O (dinner). This is going to be such a great trip!

That's enough rambling for now...

Friday, March 21, 2008

Here's what classes I want to take next year...

1. 3530 College Prep English 12 (Required) 1.00
2. 5650 Trig & Analy (Required) 1.00
3. 6986 Physics Intro (Required) 1.00
4. 7370 Advanced Placement Psychology (Required) 1.00
5. 6060 Band Symphonic (Elective) 1.00
6. 8630 Computer Media 201 (Elective) 0.50
7. 8630 Computer Media 201 (Elective) 0.50

Total Credit Hours Requested 6.00

Thursday, March 20, 2008

World Language Night

is tonight. And it's gonna be...interesting. For the past 2 weeks, my spanish 2 class has done noting but work on our pinata and the pinatas of those classes who are too lazy to undertake their own. Our (pinata) is...STANLEY THE GIANT CHICKEN! That's right, folks. We've been working on a chicken. Almost none of our class voted for it, yet we're still doing it...I don't know why!

My chemistry class (2nd hour) is doing examples of the different types of reactions: synthesis, combustion, decomposition, single replacement and double replacement. I've been making videos of all the demos, and will present them when done. I've got vids of combustion and decomposition so far.

Got to go now...kthnxbai.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Uh oh...

My research paper is going in a totally opposite direction from where I expected it to go.

This is bad...very bad.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Sorry about the length (or lack thereof) of the last post...

I was kinda extremely depressed. Anyway...the play's over! Now we get to take the stuff down. However, I think that most of what we built we're going to save for next year's play/musical. All in all, I think it was a pretty good weekend [for the play] except for MacBeth flying out (I'll explain later) and my baby (our soundboard) freezing 5 minutes before show (again, more later) on Saturday.

Okay. So, now I explain MacBeth. We've had this...ahem...bat...loose in our theatre ceiling for years. And Rita has thus christened it "MacBeth." Of course, we can't say the name because it's supposedly bad luck. But Mike cursed our whole production by saying the name like 5 times. So...it flew out during the second half (up near the balcony, where Sarah was having a HUGE hissy fit) for about 20 minutes and I just hope that the audience thought that it was an extremely well done special effect. But earlier, about 5 minutes before show, when I was playing the "pre-show music", it was playing...then I heard a huge "POP". Then...silence. A sound board op's worst nightmare. So I was like on the ClearCom saying like "um...anybody know where Rita is? Our sound board kinda froze." So Rita, Covey and Jenna all huddled around the board and Redmond made an announcement that we're having "technical difficulties". So we ended up just re-starting the board, and Covey forbade me to plug a USB flash drive in again...lol

On Sunday, I got McD sandwiches before our final show. As I pulled into the parking lot of the high school, it was just me, Robert Ende, and several other cars. (Janitors, perhaps?) We were waiting for Rita to unlock the doors. He had tennis rackets in his car, and I had a tennis ball in my glove box, so we played...Parking Lot Tennis! We kinda just whaled the balls at eachother, though. Then other techies showed up. We had Rob P., Bobby, Harli, Matt J., Matt T., and maybe one more person join in before the light god came in and unlocked the doors. (I'll post the video soon...my computer's acting weird.)

After the show, Robert Ende and I left first. As we headed to our cars, we dragged two of those cement handicap signs in front of and behind her truck. I've got a picture! lol...
Okay, that's enough for now...I think my computer may crash at any moment. When I try to upload the YouTube vid, my internet goes down (and I've got DSL). So, I'll try later...and let you know when the video is up.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

I'm debating with myself...and losing...

There are so many things that I want to say...

Yet none of them flow from my fingers to the keyboard.
*****

Friday, March 14, 2008

The Play Hath Opened. And It Hath Royally Sucketh.

Yeah. Half an hour before show, Redmond (our director) was going through my sound effects with me when he said "you know, that bugle horn's not gonna work for that one scene." HE'S HEARD ALL OF MY EFFECTS BEFORE! So now I've got two sound effects that are useless. Does anybody have any anti-depressants? I also drank 4 Monster Khaos drinks (the "limit" is 3) about an hour before the show. I almost passed out. My hands were shaking, and I felt light-headed.

Today is one of those days where I am feeling extremely pissed off and suicidal. I don't know why that is...I wonder what I need to show my doctor in order to be able to get some medicine...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sad, sad day...

I tried to start-up my laptop last night, only to discover that it'll start up and go to the (Windows didn't start normally) page. I click "Start Windows Normally", and it goes to the XP loading screen. After 5 seconds, shuts down, restarts, and the whole thing does it again.

So, to make it short, I'm not gonna be able to be online for a while. (This is my dad's computer.) I'll be on when I can.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Yay for coasting on fumes!!!

Yeah...almost ran out. But I'll get to that in a minute.

Two days down, one to go! The MME testing is such a pain...the time change really messed with my sleep clock...I woke up like I was coming out of an exorcism. Anyway, 2 math tests and a...science (?) test today, and some more tomorrow. I don't know what they are, but they'll be pretty easy (I think). I can't even bring bottled water in the room!

So I knew I was getting pretty low on gas (less than 1/16), but I didn't even know how bad it was. I was starting my car after the tests, and it turned over (but didn't fire). I tried it again, and it barely caught. I was lucky to drive it home. On the way, I saw that regular gas was $3.45!!! I got home, discovered I had no money, and then remembered I had a $25 Marathon gas card left over from christmas. Only to find out, however, that the nearest one was in EAST LANSING. Well, I had no choice. I got in my car (with some hazard triangles just in case) and started out to East Lansing. It. Was. On. The. Highway. Praying that I wouldn't run out, I drove at a pretty reasonable speed of 65. (lol.) I finally found it after 24 miles (I didn't even know I had that much!) and was able to get my tank a little more than half.


And...we open the play tomorrow. We're so not prepared. Off to go look for more sound effects!

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Because everybody should be thrown in front of a semi truck sometimes...

Just kidding about the title. I just wanted to get people's attention. So, anywho, how's it goin? I have to work tonight, and Rob might come by. That's good I guess...

So I was thinking...I want to do something with my life. Not something "good" necessarily...(god, that sounds mean!), or career-related, but just something fun and extraordinary. Having nothing to do with what I want to do after high school. I want to be remembered. My parents have been trying their hardest to keep me "sheltered", and it just ain't working. I know more about many topics than they do. Not that I'm bragging...anyway, I'm not the "nice, sweet, behaving child" that doesn't get into trouble. If you think that I am, you obviously don't know me at all. Just ask my last 3 therapists. (Not kidding!) Or my friends. They'll tell you that I'm the polar opposite. This is getting too off-track...


I sense in my fantastical cranium that it's gonna end up making people go "he did WHAT?" Just kidding...I don't think I could achieve that amount of famous-ness.

What that will be, however, is up for interpretation. I've got to go get ready for work, and while I'm at said place of employment, I'll be thinking of ideas. Any ideas that you have, please comment!

Friday, March 7, 2008

A little while...

Yeah, things have been pretty...hectic lately. I've had a lot of things to attend to, so I hope that you'll accept my meager apologies for the time being. I dearly hope that my car doesn't break down on the road because I'm still getting the "LOW OIL" light even though I just filled it this morning. Ugh...I don't wanna take it in for another costly repair.

And in about 10 minutes, I have to go to school again so I can go to our band festival. Max might be there, so YAY if he is. We might be prepared, I don't know...

I also found this online:

(In a Belgrade hotel elevator): To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.

WTF?

I know that this is a short update, but deal with it.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Hyper paper!

So I'm in the ITC, doing "research" for my junior research paper. And listening to "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" on the AnnaPod. Hopefully, I'll have these updates coming more and more as time goes on. That's ok, isn't it?

I thought so. Today has been so depressing and dreary...raining all day, and no sunshine...I Write Sins Not Tragedies, and don't you ever forget it! It seems to be all I ever do...I need a hobby. Like Thnkng Ppl Fr Th Mmrs. Why have I been incorporating all these songs into my blog post? I don't know...all I do know is I drew a pink "X" on my hand with Anna's highlighter. PINK!

Good bye for now...and I'm crankin' that soulja boy! I'm really hyper...lawlz.

My friend!

So I'm sitting next to my friend, Angelica...in the ITC. And she's bugging me to make a post about her. So here it is! We're checking out www.house.gov and filling out this sheet for honors government. It's really boring. And Angelica's really cool. Anything else? ...hmm....she's telling me to make stuff up.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Last night...

I worked from 1:30 till 9. Ugh. But, friends came over, so they entertained me! Erica came and left, then Rob, Harli, Sarah, and another friend came over and waited until I got out of work, where we went to the HS parking lot and played music and danced...lol. I took a pic of everybody on top of the beast, so here it is. (Sorry about the poor quality, I took the pic with Rob's phone.)

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Well...

Happy post-leap day! Nothing much happened yesterday...went to school, hung out with friends, did homework, etc. Now I'm watching Spongebob while waiting to go to work. I'm also looking for an app that'll let me download YouTube videos and covert them to my iPod Video. Also, I'm looking for any place that'll let me download the band song "Caccia and Chorale", a song that we played in symphonic band.

I went to the Delta Wavo Business expo this morning, and got some free stuff, including a 97.5 NOW FM sticker, a free chiropractor visit, lots of free pens, a thin wipe-off board, and some other stuff. It was fun...

I'm gonna go now and do...stuff...yeah.