Monday, June 30, 2003

If you would believe it, there used to be a time where I wasn't addicted to any of my computers. I think those days have long past, and I regret it. I would leave away messages up all the time, and I would be out and about visiting people or talking on the phone. Heck, even just spending time for me without letting anyone know where I was or how to find me. Hmm, thinking about it now, that might've been when I was at school & barely spent any time in my room and did my work away from computers. I still had the damned leash of a cell phone with me, though.

I may complain about the leash of the cell phone, but when I forget it, I feel really lost. Not so much 'cause I can't receive calls, but 'cause I'm left without all those phone numbers beyond what I've memorized, and there's always the chance of getting into an accident or lost of some form. I use the phone as my address book, really.

Back to my original rant. I'm back to using my computers quite a bit. Downloading mp3's like it's going out of style, chatting with friends over AIM, cruising various message boards, playing Yahoo! Canasta, sending emails every now and then. Granted, I really love catching up with friends I haven't talked to in a while (namely, Daniel), but a lot of the time I sit with my laptop for hours doing nothing productive besides burning my lap. I haven't even figured out why my wireless connection doesn't like to be recognized by the other computers on the network.

I want to get back to the times where I'm not addicted to the computer. I don't want to be checking my email to get nothing but junk every 5 minutes. I don't want to waste hours playing canasta, as fun as it is. I don't want to have pointless conversations with people that don't go too deep.

I've got a ton of pictures I took while I was in London that I'd like to do something with. Print them. Photo-album them. Webpage them. Something of the sort.

I'd like to make a webpage that's my own domain (www.crazykate.net) that's mainly devoted to my dancing stuff, linked to personal stuff about me. I want to learn how to do HTML or XML or something of the sort to make the page look like non-sucky-@$$.

When I was in London (hey, that's one of the places where I barely used computers!), I got back into reading books. Mind you, I really should've been out seeing London instead of reading, but that's beside the point. I've sorta gotten back into reading since graduation. I read Neil Gaiman's American Gods & Harry Potter (you be quiet JT), but beyond that, I've only started reading another book that I can't remember where I left it.

I also started doing a cross stitch bookmark thingy. Haven't touched it lately.

My room's a mess. It needs to get clean.

Sure, I dance, that's not on the computer, but not enough.

And beyond all that, I like more guys than I know what to do with right now & have no idea what any of them think of me. *pouts*

Saturday, June 28, 2003

Last night, I went to Tequila's with some of my dance friends. Good times were had. Ivanna & went to the restaurant part of the place and sat at the bar. She ordered her drink and her dinner, and our bartender came back to say that "people under 18 can't sit at the bar." I laughed and tossed my ID at her and she couldn't believe that I was over 18. Then I ordered a drink with her telling me that I couldn't drink. So I tossed my ID again and she couldn't believe it even more that I was 21. I finally got my drink after I'd gotten carded 2 times by the same person within 2 minutes. The guy bartender couldn't believe I was 21 and served me a pineapple to prove I was 21. I found out after the fact that it was saturated in fermented tequila. Um, yuck. It was absolutely disgusting. Lou & Jon came in a while after and was served a pineapple. Lou & Jon each had a bite and decided they weren't going to finish it. Lou finished it off after I mentioned that I finished mine all by myself. The rest of the night was doing line dancing & a couple west coast swings. Fun times.

I'm starting work on Monday. I can't wait. I've been sooo completely bored during the day procrastinating cleaning my room. I'm just not looking forward to having to be at work by 8am.

The Monday after 4th of July, I'm going on a diet with mom & Allie. Hopefully it'll work.

Friday, June 20, 2003

The problem with drinking caffeinated soda as I'm leaving dance with an hour drive home is that it doesn't kick in until I get home, which totally defeats the purpose of my drinking caffeine in the first place! *sigh* I can't win.

Well, in that case I can't.

Tonight, I WIN!! I got digits!!

Wednesday, June 04, 2003

I got back from London on May 3rd. I graduated from WPI with a BS in EE on May 17th. I start work at BAE Systems on June 30th. It's June 4th -- I've been back for a month now.

What have I done in that month? Not a whole lot of anything.

I finished up details at WPI before graduation. Chilled in W at the very deserted WPI with James quite a bit and caught up with other people over various meals out. In the time of hanging out with James, he got me hooked on Adventures of Lolo on the NES emulator I hijacked from him. I saw Matrix: Reloaded and Finding Nemo in W.

And, of course, I've been dancing. At least every other night. It's been really neato seeing all the people I hadn't seen in the 2 months I was in London. I had a lesson with Anne that went pretty well. Soonish after, I had a lesson with Erik that was wicked awesome. That was the day after the crazy workshops Erik & Laura held at the day Jen was hosting. I crashed at her place that night and stayed up crazy late socializing and stuff. The weekend made me quite sore, crazy amounts of dancing.

My wrist has been bothering me for the past 2.5 weeks. I'm not sure what caused it. I saw an occupational therapist today. She says it shows some symptoms of tendonitis. I've gotta ice it and do exercises. I think I'm getting a splint made for me on Friday. I'm still allowed to dance, I've just gotta take it easy.

Outside of W and dance, I haven't been too productive. I closed a bank account and opened a new one so I could consolidate my $$ into a single bank. ... I visited the doctor / OT. ... I organized some of my clothes in my drawers. ... I can't think of anything else, really.

This entry isn't well written at all. I'm jumping all over the place, writing things out of order, likely bad grammar as well. Deal. ;-)

My lesson with Erik was absolutely amazing. He fixed a lot of the little things that I do wrong. He said that I was like a sponge 'cause I absorb information. (Darren, who taught me ballroom, used to saw I was like clay -- same idea.) Near the end of the lesson, he sorta ran out of things that were quick and easy to fix, so we just danced. I'd asked for a slower song than wicked fast and he refused -- I could trick him with correctly fixing all the little things when I was dancing to slower music, with the fast music, I couldn't trick him and he could pick on me.

I've had a lot of time of doing nothing but lounging around the house. I've been reading people's blogs and journals and things of the like quite a bit. I'm most intrigued by Jon's Journal. He's really got his head wrapped around things & I'm impressed with how he write about everything.

I don't really have my head wrapped around everything. I don't have a clue about politics. I don't pay attention to them at all. People say things and I really just go along with them. About anything. I absorb what people say about things. I really think I need to form my own beliefs about various topics. I'm not sure how to go about doing this. I think it needs to happen.

For now, I'll do nothing but dance. Work will start soon enough.