| As usual I suck at life... |
[Mar. 29th, 2005|04:46 pm] |
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| | The Moulin Rouge sound track | ] |
...but we all knew that. I'm getting slightly better though - entries in consecutive months is worth something, right?
Anyway, you should check out the ever impressive disco dance floor:
http://web.mit.edu/skysg/Public/ddf%20demo%20qt2.mov
it's finally finished, for good this time, too ... really. Bask in its coolness.
Besides the dance floor I haven't really been up to that much. I'm just back from Spring Break, and I don't want to be back in classes. I have too much work to do - lab reports and a paper and forms to get signed and a test coming up next week that's going to be really bad and just general ickiness. I'm tired; I need another spring break.
Let's see ... some cool things that have happenned...
-> I bought posters!! :o They were cheap and I wanted a Mucha poster, but they didn't have any I liked so I got Dr. Octopus and Johnny Depp instead :D I feel uneducated, but they make me happy. Now I just have to clean my room enough that I can walk around and put up said posters. I should take pictures of my room and post them just so you can know the level of absolute choas that it's reached *sigh* It's really bad.
-> Grant, Scott and Skyler are concocting schemes for a huge disco dance floor that's got 3" squares (that's 16 to a square foot) and is 8 times as big as the one we put in the lounge. They want to put it on the dot for the world series and have a huge party. It would be modular (in one foot squares) and the squares would click together and be wireless outside the squares because all the data and power would be transfered through the connections and ... well, you get the idea. It's completely absurd. :)
-> I went on hugely difficult quest for a new power supply for my computer. It was very long; suffice to say that I went through 5 Radioshacks, 4 T tokens, was offered $220 worth of other products, and told that there was nothing that could be done 3 times before I finally got a stupid replacement. *Grrrrr* Mean old meanies trying to cheat me out of my hard earned cash. I have a lifetime warrenty on that piece of crap power supply. They even tried to sell me one of the newer models that doesn't work with my model of computer! >:(
Hmmmm...can't think of anything more at the moment so hopefully I'll be posting soon... Hey! you never know, I might... just to mix things up a little. |
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| Wow! I suck ... |
[Feb. 6th, 2005|02:04 am] |
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| | Mad World - Gary Jules | ] |
As I expected, I kept up with the journal for like a week -_-' oh well.
I'm back for however long I can manage this time. Let's see ... what's going on with me?
-Classes just started. I decided that I'm not going to major in Course 16 (aeronautical and astronautical engineering) because it's full of uninteresting material, bad teachers, and obnoxious undergrads who are all from frat houses :( Why can't building space ships be awesome?
I'm not sure what I'm going to major in now. Maybe biology or chemistry or physics. I'm in an Organic Chemistry class, a Biology Lab, and an Introductory Fiction class (yay!) right now, and I still have time to mess around and decide what to do, so I'm not too worried.
-IAP (that's the short term in January for MIT) was awesome. There was a big blizzard and we got 2 feet of snow. I was really excited and most of my friends were all like 'you'll get tired of it eventually', but I don't see that ever happening :D Also during the last week of IAP, my hall banded together and gave our lounge into a DISCO DANCE FLOOR! Then we had a disco dance party. There were a ton of people there even though not everyone is back during IAP and there was a blizzard. I'll attempt to post pictures of the floor tomorrow. I spent most of IAP being one of about six people who HAND-soldered:
All 8 of the control boards (Mike rocks)
All of the header - that's five solder joints on each of the 512 pieces
All the other ends of the cable - That's another five joints on each of the 512 cables
and all kinds of other stuff (the power cords, etc, etc)
-Oh yeah! My gums got so swollen that I couldn't see my wisdom teeth. When I finally went to MITmedical the nurse asked me if I had been in a lab around a lot of solder fumes >_< oh how I suffer for the dance floor. Apparently soldering 16 hours a day for almost a week isn't enough. It was worth it though. 1E is officially the coolest hall ever. You should poke around >>> http://web.mit.edu/first-east/www/
Anyway, that's what I've been up to for the last month or so. I'll try to be better about keeping up with this if only so I don't forget everything I've ever done :) |
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| Wow! I've been a slacker ... |
[Sep. 2nd, 2004|03:57 pm] |
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| |  pensive | ] |
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| | Weather Channel - yes I'm a dork ; ) | ] |
... 3 days since my last entry.
Anyway, things have been going pretty well for me. My family's beginning to get A LOT of seperation anxiety, but they're at least trying to be good. That counts for something ... right? I've been hanging out with Anne almost everyday. All my other high school type pals have gone back to college. I'm actually kind of worried about Grace. She goes to Flagler college in Flagler Beach, FL. It's on the east coast so she's about to get thwacked by Hurricane Frances. Kendall is in Tallahassee, so I think she'll be O.K. Frances is scary :(
I think that my weekend is going to be almost as scary as Frances. At least during this weekend, we'll be in the middle of Gatlinburg we can go shopping/window shopping/waste time whenever we want. There are still the inevitable family meals, family swims, and family sermons (yes sermons). Not looking foreward to all that in case you haven't guessed.
This makes Gatlinburg almost worth it, though: http://www.china-bazaar.com/
After last weekend, this one will probably seem almost like a real vacation :)
Woohoo! |
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| A Real Entry ... |
[Aug. 30th, 2004|04:29 pm] |
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| | Animal Crossing (so addictive) | ] |
Wow! I was beat last night. I started falling asleep almost as soon as I started my entry so I went to bed like a slacker ;) I feel much better today. Anyway, onto the vacation antics.
My extended family is out to kill me, I swear. The whole reason we were gathering out of season (this side of the family usually reunions at December, March, and June) is because my mother's biological father was getting married, again. woohoo. Another set of relatives who I don't like and whose names I can't remember. I now have 4 new uncles-in-law, 5 new aunts-in-law, and 5 new cousins; and those are just the ones who showed up to The Wedding in the Middle of Nowhere. I hear tale there are quite a few others.
I was in for an unpleasant surprise when I got to "the cabin". It wasn't like a hotel with separate rooms. There were lots of bedrooms with communal bathrooms and a communal kitchen/living room. There was no escape!!! :(
The wedding overall went really well. All the little children were suitably adorable, and all the adults were suitably beautiful, and the music was suitably a pleasent blend of traditional and religious stuff. I even played my violin decently despite being committed to it by my mother WITHOUT BEING CONSULTED FIRST!!!
*fuming rage*
... but I won't start on that. Before the wedding was the "sleepover shower". Everyone got to "the cabin" the day before the wedding, that night all the women (and I) dressed in our pajamas and brought gifts to the bride. The whole experience was horrendous. Let's just say the didn't need to associate the numerous negligee gifts with the (60 year old!!! >_<) bride.
Then there was the dancing after the dinner after the reception after the wedding ceremony. Since I was, yet again, the youngest person not banished to the cabin with the kids, everyone thought that I should dance, and often. :( Needless to say, I made my escape as fast as the possible. Spending two hours with 12 children from ages 14 to one year was just so many barrels of laughs ... x_x
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Last night was much better. My best friends came over and spent the night. We rented "Welcome to Mooseport" from Blockbuster. Not the best movie ever, but it gets *** (3 stars out of 5) on the Rachel Ratings, which is pretty decent. I wish I had seen it at the cheap theatre for $2.50, it would have been cheaper than renting. Oh well :)
Seeing Anne made me feel much better :D She's great fun, we just lounged around and wasted time. Now I have to run and start cleaning my room to get ready to pack my stuff for college. Thanks to Family Reunion #2 I have four days (counting today) to pack for college, but my WHOLE FAMILY is freaking out. It's driving me up the wall. Anyway, I'm off to work in my admittedly very messy room. ^_^ |
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| I Survived Round One! |
[Aug. 29th, 2004|11:12 pm] |
Family reunion #1 is finished!
I just spent all of Friday, all of Saturday, and most of today trapped in Gatlinburg, TN. I can't even begin to describe Gatlinburg. It's like Las Vegas with the gambling and promiscuity replaced with Christian Bookstore outlets - smack in the middle of the Smokey Moutains (a.k.a. the center of The South). |
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[Aug. 27th, 2004|12:53 am] |
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So ... ummm ... yes. This is livejournal, apparently.
My good friend, enay, has finally gotten me on here, and I have to admit that even the free accounts are pretty decent. I get the feeling that this is one of those things that's going to mercilessly suck my soul away ... oh well : )
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Anyway, I'm Rachel, I live in The Middle of Nowhere, GA. For any other general personal stuff go check out those info things that I haven't gotten around to finishing yet.
I've just escaped from my summer job at the Cracker Barrel, home of all things Southern with a side order of soul-blackening evil. It's not the people, either, it's just the job. Yes, it really is that bad. Plus I left my favorite (and only) umbrella in the employee break room. I'm going to have to go back and get it at some point. : ( Very sad times!
I just got back from visiting a friend at Emory in Atlanta (and singing lots of Disney songs in the car). She's a Sophomore, and she really seems to enjoy it there. : D Being on a college campus REALLY made me miss school, but I have two weeks and two family reunions to get past before I can go back. I'm pining away . . . *dramatic sigh*
A strange thing happened today after I got back, though. It was so weird. I felt really strange once I got home, so on a whim I got out a scetch book a friend gave me (like, years ago) and a crappy #2 pencil and drew two completely random, not very good pictures. It was ... soothing, but I could never draw on a regular basis. I have no end of admiration for my friends who are heavy enough into art that they take classes where they've got to constantly be creative.
Anyway, I have to go pack for family reunion #1. It's a wedding of all things! x_x How do I get roped into horrible family to-dos like this?
Hey, what do you know? This whole journal thing isn't so tough after all! I hope to keep it up, but ... well ... the best laid plans, and all that rot. Congrats if you made it this far through my ramblings. Despite all the reunion stuff, having only 10 days til I leave for school again puts me in a good mood! ^_^ |
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