Whew, things are in full swing now. Wildflower particularly. Our second lake visit was this weekend and it was a blast. This visit was essentially an introduction for the sub-committee to the lake and a chance to get some work done in our areas. Per average on Friday night we did team building activities and fun stuff like that. Let me announce now that my team once again came out top-dog in the drama event. We on the Oscar for Best Skit. It'll go nicely with my Lakey for "Best Actor in a Comedy Role" I won last lake visit. The only drawback to these awards is that the prize is Campus Dining cups, of which I would now have 3. I don't of course, I traded one to Sam for a WF Hat, and gave the other to Charm just because she's awesome. In any case, all that aside the weekend was very productive.

Our main group presentation is tonight, and traditionally group presentations are very boring. Most groups do an adequate job, explain the points we all need to know, and the golden few crack a couple of jokes. The worst ones are sheer pain (*cough* communications *cough*). In any case, I think that last year my commmittee's presentation was hands down the best. It was really just a PowerPoint presentation with bits of weirdness and hilarity thrown in, but the whole crowd was laughing for most of it (and Brian Clow in tears for more than half of it) and they got the information. This year we've really out done ourselves. If last year was awesome, this presentation will be multi-orgasmic. We knew we wanted to up the bar one more level, so thought we would do a video presentation. Let me assure you, this video presentation is unlike any you've seen before.

Why is it so awesome? Well, let me go ahead and lay out a couple of features our little movie has:

-Ernest Hemingway
-A Jungle Adventure
-Orc Hordes
-The new word "Ambrosiatic"
-Super Heroes
-Mutant Ninjas
-Security Sam and his Secret Viper Squad of Six

If I revealed any more your head might explode in anticipation. I don't think I need to say any more. Watch for it soon on this very website. I dumped it into DiVX format last night, so we'll see how big that ends up being. If worse comes to worse I'll down-sample it for Quicktime streaming goodness.

In honesty, I think our presentation will be well receieved, but I'll report back tomorrow. I really hope so at least. I think from conception to final product it took right around 20 hours just for this 6 minutes of gold. If nothing else, it's certainly given me an appreciation for what actually goes into cutting a movie from raw footage.

Woo! I passed the WPE exam to fulfill my graduation writing requirment with an illustrious score of: 8. Yup, barely passed. I thought my essay was better than that, but I knew my summary of the article was really weak. It seems sort of sad though to go from the highest score on my AP English Lit. Exam in High School to the lowest possible score for a similar subject. I guess the writing I've been practicing (ala blog) is quite a bit different than a formal essay though. Oh well, I'm happy in any case that I don't have to take it again.

One more requirement out the door towards graduation in June.

So the girl that I want to make eat crab? Well she changed her story on me today, it's duck now. I don't know if that is a step up or not. Oh well. I found out today I'm 99% sure I'll be graduating in Spring. There was a small hitch in one of the classes I needed, but I talked with the department and everything is good to go. The issue is all because they've completely changeed things since I came to Poly. On my catalogue I needed a class called EE228. This class turned into EE301 to satisfy an upper division elective requirement, and then turned back into 228 for other catalogues. Then to make things extra confusing the same class is also called CPE x330 for CPE people to have enough CPE upper division credit. It's all the same class, it's just weird semantics. In any case, they didn't have it up last week as being offered (under any name) so I freaked out a little bit, but there was some sort of mixup. In any case I register next week, and with a little luck will just get all the classes I need and not have to beg for anything. Wouldn't that be novel? I have decent priority, so I don't foresee any problems.

On another note, my senior project is complete! It's so satisfying to see the last 5 years coming together so smoothly. There have been little hiccups along the way this year, but everything has turned out well. Thank God!

It's been really strange though knowing that I'll be leaving San Luis soon. It's a difficult feeling to describe; knowing that I'll be gone from this town soon and when (or if) I ever come back things will be completely different then I remember them right now. It's sort of sad almost, leaving such an fun part of life.

This post would probably be better made on the eve of graduation, as I still have plenty of studying left to do. It's hard to believe that the quarter is almost over though. I didn't think my senior year would go this fast, I had though senioritis would drain any momentum away. It's simply not been the case though. For the first time I've actually been fairly enthusiastic about learning what I'm learning now. I feel now like I don't want to leave because it's just getting good.

Even with all this lamenting going on, I'm really excited to see what more is coming up. I really am anxious to see where I'll be headed in the Corps, and for that matter how much of a summer I'll really have. If they send me mid-July (after Myles' wedding of course) I'll really have only a month! Of course if they send me September, I'll have to decide what I want to do with myself for three months. It's a big unknown at present time that I'd really like to fill.

I think I've written enough today, although probably I've said very little. I'm feeling pretty content right now indeed.

Turns out my teeth are good enough for international service. (I received dental approval from Peace Corps. today) Let that be a lesson to you kids.

Anyone not have gmail that wants it? I have 50 invites now. Sheesh.

For those not in the know, gmail is google's online email system. The catch is you get 1GB of space (which is a lot). It also has the sweetest interface known to man and allows you to retrieve your email via POP3 and send mail via SMTP. It rocks my freakin' socks off.

It was sweet. Today is the day of free food. I ordered Calzones in lab today (which was funny to see the Professors face as they pizza guy came in!) and tonight I get special Lighthouse extravaganza. Tomorrow I get a free boxed lunch from Sandwich factory. Yay Campus Dining! Yay for Student Dining Committee!

iyps is now online and functional. It's also pretty janky. There is some serious hackery in there, but I'm going to try and sexify it this weekend. I'd like to have it send emails when users receive a batch of new charges... Also get rid of the crappery and add the tiniest bit of security. As it is I have no doubt an amazing master hacker (or 13 year old) could break in and have access to everything my roommates might owe me! Oh no!

Since I'm sure you're the only one interested, Sean, IM me and I'll set you up a test account so you can poke around.

Today is momentous. Beyond having a crap load of work to do, I actually finished my health evaluation! Even after the freakin' health center LOST my original applications (I happened to have a spare, and they re-filled it out for me) it's finally done. I should know in 4-6 weeks where I'll be headed (region wise).

School is annoying me now. It's really nice not having any homework at all, but really crappy that all the labs close at 6 pm. It's like I have to work my ass off between 8am and 6pm (including normal work and school work) and then have nothing to do on evenings. I'd prefer the homework, where I can slack of a little bit... or at least decide my own fate a bit more. With all this lab work I am depended on by and in turn depend on my lab partners. It's crapulon.

I asked a girl out today. That was exciting... too bad she was busy this weekend. I was all stupid like a high school kid though. I am so anti-smooth when it comes to women. I have to admit though, knowing I'm leaving the country in not to long does bolster the confidence. If I screw up that badly, I'll probably never see them again =P I suppose that probably isn't the correct attitude to take, but eh... In honesty, I'm just looking for someone to hang out with right now. I don't want a serious girlfriend, if I ended up with one it would be that much harder to go. I'll say now that I simply refuse to not go. If I end up not going, I hope that you few who read this will come and beat me up. Seriously. And you, possible future girlfriend who may attempt to persuade me to stay: Shame!