also posted on my geocities webspace…
well, the first week of classes is over. all in all, i’d say i’ve had a good start to this school year. and more importantly, in comparison to the last two years’ starts, this year has been stellar. i’ve been making a concerted effort to not be a total jerk, and although i’ve had my share of lapses, i’ve been doing ok. and in turned, i’ve reaped the reward of having people be friendly back to me.
i changed my classes a bit from my initial setup. i stuck with two anthro courses (law & culture and culture & society) and a level 3 distro (history of philosophy), but i dropped my 300-level german class before the first day of classes, and then subsequently dropped cs111 for cs130. cs130 should be pretty easy and fun, and thing is, it might actually even be practical, since i’ll learn some web technology crap.
i’ve been hanging out in chapin, because living alone can get, well, boring. i wouldn’t say “lonely,” but boring. i think the crop of freshmen is pretty decent, especially given the past few classes. yeah, not bad.
my first day in earnest at the new job was today, and it wasn’t half bad. basically, i do what i do anyway on the internet: tinker, write e-mails, search for stuff. ya know.
ok … another update sometime soon…
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posted on my geocities web space (ha)…
well, things here at underscorebleach.net aren’t so good at the moment. that’s because my normal server, for some reason, isn’t up. i’m not at home, so i can’t fix it, and because it isn’t connected to the net, i can’t ssh in and potentially fix things.
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ahhh. first day of classes. it’s been over six months since i was in a class. didja know that? well now you do. and it felt a little weird, honestly — especially getting back into academic mode where bullshit words like “performativity” (?!) rule. but i can deal.
last night, i dropped the 300-level German class i was gonna take and opted instead for Intro to Computer Programming. i hope it was a good decision. i like German a lot, mind you, but i think a minor in it would be useless, and besides, i’m scared of taking a 300-level German class after not speaking deutsch for 6+ months.
more good news. Ameritech FINALLY got their shit together and got my phone line working. thus, this update comes to you straight from my L-adjacent apartment via NU modem pool-dialup.
and lastly, on Saturday, my beloved Illini scorched the Louisville Cardinals 34-10. even more amazingly, the Bears rallied for a rousing 17-10 victory over those cocky Vikings. Cris Carter, screw you. you got what you deserve. stop crying on the sideline.
ta ta for now!
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SCREW AMERITECH.
After waiting around UNNECESSARILY all day Friday and Saturday morning, the retards at Ameritech STILL haven’t gotten my phone line turned on. I called them today (Saturday) after they were supposed to have already been to my apartment, and they informed me that they had no record of the 8am-12pm service visit they scheduled for this morning. W H A T T H E H E L L ?
Are people really this stupid?
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Ma1inda 69: like your place so far? not too noisy?
underscorebleach: not too bad, no
underscorebleach: except
underscorebleach: the phone line
underscorebleach: and
underscorebleach: the homeless guy who lives in the basement
underscorebleach: other than that
underscorebleach: it’s cool
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well well.
today has been sort of wasted. i was under the impression that i had to stay at home all day to wait for Ameritech to come and set up my phone line, but when they hadn’t come by 4:30, i started to wonder. i called them from a pay phone, and the lady informed me that i hadn’t needed to wait at home all day because they were going to set up my new number remotely. hrmm.
i am in chapin. again. i am a little surprised that i’m here so much; maybe it’s because it’s familiar. makes me feel a little pathetic, though, to tell you the truth.
and yes, the only food in my apt at the moment is half a bottle of Sierra Mist, 3 cans of Campbell’s chunky soup, and some granola bars.
i went to radioshack today and got a phone jack splitter. they didn’t have a passive preamp or a ps/2 splitter. i then went to the audio store down the street and inquired about what to do with my preamp. he suggested i search the web for information about replacement parts. so i did, and i found this guy named Dusty who services Audio Alchemy components (and evidently has a small company of his own that manufactures parts to work with old AA stuff). i emailed him about it. we’ll see.
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my page looks absolutely horrible in NS 4.7. i don’t really get it. is it because i can’t code properly or because NS 4.7 can’t handle CSS properly? please tell me.
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this update comes to you courtesy of the Dell Alumni Study Lounge in Norris University Center. so anyway, it’s been a pretty good day so far. i had a job interview with Staci Roberts at the Web Communications office at 2pm, which I thought i was going to be late to, since I went to Taco Bell beforehand. i wasn’t late, and i got the job. i’m pretty excited; i think it will be a great resume-builder. i’ll get to work on the top-level Northwestern pages and redesign NU departmental pages.
the NICOR dude was supposed to come today to take a reading, but i guess i missed him. i couldn’t wait around all day, after all. tomorrow, the Ameritech dude is coming to set up my phone. yay. then i’ll have dial-up access from home.
i really need to go to the grocery store, Best Buy/Radioshack, and a Target-type store. i have no food in the house, and i lack fairly important things like toilet paper and paper towels.
in other white-knuckles news, something is awry with my preamp. the power supply seems to have taken a dump. it makes a strange hum (60Hz?) and doesn’t power the main unit properly. (by the way, my preamp [see stereo page] has an external power supply.) i might just get a cheapo passive preamp from Radioshack if i can’t get this sorted out.
ok, enough for now.
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sighhhhh. well, i’m in evanston now. i got up around 8 am, packed, and left about 1 pm. john e. helped me move my stuff from the car up the stairs to my apartment, which was nice of him. now i have before me the task of unpacking, washing, setting up, etc. sigh.
i have been exceptionally tired and short-tempered lately. i think it’s directly related to the terrorist attacks. i have ZERO patience. the smallest things infuriate me. i also find myself exhausted by the early evening. and additionally, i’ve had a couple of won’t-stop nosebleeds, which i’ve never gotten before in my life. strange.
so i write this from the chapin computer room, feeling kind of lonely. i guess i haven’t gotten settled in yet. that must be the reason. hopefully i will find something fun to do tonight. eh.
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macs suck. this mac irc client is annoying. the mac window manager is annoying. even mac IE sucks. speaking of which, i noticed that my page looks bad on mac IE (it’s a DIV issue of line-spacing). since i already knew that it doesn’t look right with pc opera, i think i’m going to have to tinker with things.
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haha, this is my dad from senior year. good thing i fall FAR from the tree!
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impolymerized: you’re an ass
impolymerized: i don’t like talking to you anymore
impolymerized: go away
impolymerized: blocking you now.
impolymerized signed off at 9:15:38 PM.
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from this article by Mark Steyn at the National Review…
“For every high-flying flag, there’s someone who wants to make this “tragedy” and “crisis” into the usual masturbatory grief wallow of empty Clintobabble ? “healing,” “closure,” and all the other guff. This stuff is far craftier than old-style pacifism or open anti-Americanism, and after a decade of self-indulgence it reaches deep into the American psyche.”
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