This is what i think

I’m buying a Wii tonight.  C-burg Wallyworld will have more than 5 of them available at midnight, and I’m gonna head out around 10ish probably to stand in line.  A bit loserish of a thing to do on a Saturday night but I don’t care.  I want a wii, they’re cool, you’re not if you don’t have one.  And I’m sure my bro A-bomb is sick of me saying ‘I want a Wii’

Joystiq… Wiis at Wal-Martz tomorrow

I’m officially in grad school.  I know that’s probably the tenth time I’ve said that but I have the letter in hand on my desk from the grad school provost.  Shibby.  Not too much is going on…

Since my last post I went snowboarding on the 18th.  We didn’t have Design class so we got a good 4.5 hours boarding in.  The weather was PERFECT.  It was about 31 degrees and they DIDN’T have the blowers running so goggles weren’t necessary.  I’m getting more comfortable with going straight down-hill.  Considering all my hospitalizations I think it’s acceptable that I am trying to be careful by not going too fast.

I’ve also been in a weird mood lately.  My mind is pretty clear and I don’t have a million thoughts going on at once.  I also haven’t really been conciously motivated to do anything in particular… it’s like I don’t care.  This weekend I stayed in both nights while my roommates went downtown.  Admittedly, I was a little anti-social.  I’ve been doing a lot of work too.  Conciously I’m not motivated to do anything, but apparently my subconcious is motivated to get shit done.  Again, not a bad thing… I just wish I cared.

The Sub Team was busting its collective ass bum yesterday and this morning because we were supposed to give a presentation on our sub to some higher-up people to get feedback.  With all the work we’ve done… we’re where last years team was in April.  I know there’s still a lot to do, but it feels like we’ll be done after this week (definately won’t be the case).  I think our sub is awesome.  I’ll post some pics of the rhino model of it when I get a chance next week.

I really need to start doing CFD work for the HSAUV team.  Tomorrow I’m going to get swipe access to the ME CadLab.  There I’ll be learning to use some software called Fluent that does the actual CFD work.  Never done CFD work which is part of the reason why I actually want to do this for the New AUV project.  The first word in it (Computational) provides a good outlook since I’m good with computers.  I wonder what me (ha, just noticed I typed me… now where’d me lucky charms go…) my thesis is going to be…

Last week I started two posts called ‘Sad Songs…’ and ‘Scrubs…’, but I didn’t have a chance to finish them.  Something to look forward to…

Last… semester of undergrad

First… semester of graduate

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A couple days ago I watched the movie Rocky Balboa with two of my best friends Mondo and Cooney.  It was a good movie.  I like boxing and it was just good in general.  One thing in particular I liked was this quote, which relates to some of my year:

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean, and nasty place an’ no matter how tough you think you are, it’ll always beat you if you let it. It ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! If you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits and not pointin’ fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, her, or anybody! Cowards do that, and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!” - Rocky Balboa

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