ritskip's Xanga

gimme some lovin', the blues brothers

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:49:03 GMT

so i'm calling it a career on xanga. not that that'll change much. i'm just migrating to http://skipperxc.blogspot.com.

so long, farewell, auf weidersehen, goodbye.

for now.

no song, just a thought before bed

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:31:35 GMT

so it's 3:30, and i'm going to bed. average bedtime, but not great. but, y'know, that's my problem, and i'll deal with that.

but as i go to bed, my itunes is going, and as i get into bed i notice what song is playing:
"i am the way;
follow me and take my hand.
i am the truth;
embrace me and you'll understand.
i am the life;
and for me you'll live again.
for i am love,
i am love,
i, i am love."

i might be in a miserable place right now, but god's there. i don't always seek, and i rarely listen. but he's there.

i think i needed that.

hey julie, fountains of wayne

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:01:09 GMT

home for break. a curious time this is, what with the having two weeks and no idea what to do with it. except this time around i have an idea what to do with my time, it's just that i may run out of time to do it all. i want to get down to chicago for a few days to see elliot and arricka, which should be freakin' sweet. apparently we both like jimmy stewart? who knew.

and i want to go see sandra, and rachel, and stacy...but all them are really busy. tomorrow is for phone calls. should be...troublesome. gotta figure out when i'm going down to chicago first so i can plan around that. or vice versa? gah!

also: senior project. and graduating. oh my. oh and i need to remind arricka to get kal ho naa ho during christmas break. i won't remember, so i'll put it here for safekeeping.

website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart_(actor)

name that tune:
Well I feel so good, everything is sellin' high
You'd better take it easy cause the place is on fire

software engineering in a nutshell

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:00:44 GMT

(10:39:24 AM) Jon Senchyna: I'm afraid of client-server now
(10:39:29 AM) Me: lol why's that
(10:41:49 AM) Jon Senchyna: it's a little more complex than client -> server -> profit

no song today, folks

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:44:38 GMT

so.

got my senior project assignment back.

got the one i wanted. and the teammate i'd asked for.

however.

my project team?

just the two of us.

all the others have four or five.

us?

solamente dos.

...

curious.

website: here goes nothing...

name that tune:
Why must I spend my time
Fillin' up my mind
With facts and figures that never add up anyway

operator (that's not the way it feels), jim croce

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:50:28 GMT

here's how it's gonna go down:

winter schedule:
0303-481-01 10-12 MW
0303-784-84 5-9 M
0101-494-71 6-10 W
4010-561 4-6 TR

spring schedule:
0303-734-70 MW 6-8
(eng elective du jour)
4010-562 4-6 TR

which is gonna be enough to get me a second minor (engineering management) alongside my first one (literary and cultural studies). just gotta figure out what that last elective is gonna be. kinda sad they're not offering materials processing during that block, i woulda liked to have a hammer.

long story short, winter is going to be a massive kick in the nuts because of all the new stuff, then spring is going to be another massive kick in the nuts because of all the senior project "oh crap we have to finish we are so behind oh my goodness we're doomed" pressure. but i'll have less class! downside is that winter, soccer might not be happening. shame, really. hopefully i'll be able to figure something out.

(don't feel like putting up another link or song today, since i made a post just this afternoon. er, yesterday.)

i'm taking you with me, relient k

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:45:22 GMT

i have to start picking senior projects. registration for winter quarter is tomorrow. where i will register for senior project.

i'm not ready to be done with college, i like being a college student too much. not that i like the class stuff of course, that's crazy talk. it's the life i'll miss. but i've got just six, seven months until i'm done. good lord where has the time gone.

website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

name that tune:
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels

full circle, miley cyrus

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:11:05 GMT

^^ yeah, i like me a bit of miley cyrus on occasion, what of it? wanna fight? ^^

playlist lately:
1) deathbed, relient k
2) missin' you, chris rice
3) jefferson aero plane, relient k
4) it is you (i have loved), dana glover
5) hallelujah, rufus wainwright
6) time in a bottle, jim croce
7) operator (that's not the way it feels), jim croce
8) faking my own suicide, relient k

ben thinks i'm a coward. i can't decide if i'm a wuss or if my justification for being one is actually legitimate. curse you devil woman! i'm going to get this right, i swear it. er...i'll get right what i can in the here and now, anyway.

website: http://www.rit.edu/calendar/0809.html. time is tickin', it keeps on tickin', yo time is tickin' away...

name that tune:
If home is where the heart is
Then my home is where you are
But it's getting oh so hard
To spend these days without my heart

let my love open the door, relient k

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:05:20 GMT

" We were in this huge credit crisis, out of money. Then the Fed goes, We'll give you a trillion dollars, and all of a sudden Wall Street is like, ''I can't believe we got away with it!'' Can you imagine if someone said, ''I shouldn't have bought that sports car because it means I can't have my house,'' and the bank just said, ''All right, you can have your house. And you know what? Keep the car.'' [He throws up his arms joyfully and shouts] ''Yeaaaaah, I get to keep the car! Wait, do I have to give the money back?'' ''No, it doesn't matter.'' ''Yeah, I'm gonna get another car! I'm gonna do the same thing the same way, except twice as f---ed up!'' "

yeah that about sums it up. thanks jon stewart for pointing out what the people in charge don't seem to notice. again.

website: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hfo -- it's about that time eh

name that tune:
I don’t know why
Tried to run
But I keep on
Coming back
Full circle
And I can’t jump the track
Can’t let you go

i want to break free, queen

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:12:39 GMT

man, you let a little time pass, talk stuff over a little bit, get out of the heat of the moment...stuff calms down a bit. nothing's different, of course. i still feel the same as i always have, which isn't likely to all of a sudden change overnight. still haven't had the coversation of horrors i've been putting off for a year. but the beast is back in the cage, so to speak.

it hasn't really registered that summer is all but over. no more sleeping on the couch, sadly. i've got a tongue-in-cheek offer to stay in perkins this fall and winter, i haven't decided if i want to pursue that. WAY more convenient for chillin', and frankly it'll be hard to concentrate on schoolwork less than i already do so that's probably no worse than a push. the trick is that it's kinda shady because it's spoth's spot that i'd be squatting in, while paying for the spot in the knoll. and then once winter hits and spoth moves back, but ben moves out...that'll be interesting. so we'll see if i go that route for fall.

very curious to see everyone around me start to do the "growing up" thing. elliot being first and foremost, he's the guy i'm closest with who's all graduated and stuff. so talking to him is rather educating, just being in the workforce and developing relationships with folk and what have you. the thing that's most interesting is that these sorts of relationships are the ones that last more than just four, five years.

that kind of stuff has always kind stuck in the back of my head, like how the baker boyz are kinda at the end of the line. and what happens when we all leave, y'know? who knows where everybody ends up. and anybody who knows me knows that i'm awful when i'm by myself for any amount of time. pat's gone this week and it's going to be an epic failure in nearly every facet of my life. thanks be to arricka and then marsh and ben for keeping me occupied today. but that was just one day. i was alone first month of last summer, that was a catastrophe until pat moved back in. for that to be me for the rest of my life...i'm not ready for that. not remotely.

that's the kind of maturity stuff that tends to get me in trouble of late. kinda worrisome, to be honest. how am i the only one who isn't content to just sit in white-collar mediocrity? and when i say "content" i mean i'm not ready to embrace that as my eventuality. i don't want it to be. i want to do stuff i want to do. i keep seeing signs for places that are hiring and going "that'd be fun to learn to do". because it would! i want to learn how to do stuff, lots of stuff. if i'm going to do the same stuff over and over again, i want it to be something i can at least enjoy doing. like i've always said, i loved the factory and i love the library because when i go to work, i get to shut off my brain and have fun with it, not worry about if i'm doing it right or getting left behind the curve or something. and if i can't have that, i want to at least be learning something. i just...i dunno. i'm just scared of where i'm going to be a year from now, because unless i grow a particularly robust pair...it's going to be somewhere that's going to make me lonely and miserable.

and then i start worrying about my dream to have a family, because that (it has become increasingly apparent) is going to require me to be a source of stability...and i can't handle that. not right now, anyway. it terrifies me to think of being a parent right now. every day i grow older i have more respect for my folks because mom was just a touch younger than i am right now when i was born, and dad not much older than that. i simply cannot imagine what that must have been like, how difficult that must have been for someone so young. and how i far i have yet to go before i get there.

website: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation?page=1. yeah, it's kinda gamer niche, sue me. it's still really funny to hear his wordplay.

name that tune:
i got the only key to your heart
i can stop you from falling apart
release yourself from the misery
only one thing's gonna set you free