Tuesday Night

Huh... I was told to tell everyone I had fun Tuesday night... I thought it was implied... Plus I'm really tired right now and I've got to get to sleep, so drop me a line tomorrow after three and I'll be a bit more available... Now g'night!

I'll be coming home Friday night

Half to check if anyone reads this, I'm only posting this here. I'll be coming home tonight, Friday December 17 instead of tomorrow. If you're interested give me a buzz. Anyway, I'm going to eat or sleep or perform some life function that isn't necessary right now, so ciao!

Finals Continue

Well, the history final went relatively well, the only part where I feel I really messed up was the last topical essy, thirty points of the final... but the ID's (thirty points) and the comprehensive exam (fourty points) I did well on. Anyway, tomorrow is Math at one if the afternoon. I'm doing better in the class than I thought but I need at least an 85 on this test, so I'm going to be hitting the books pretty hard tonight (and tomorrow morning). That means I also get to hit the food pretty hard, a Jimmy John's Gargantuan sounds so good right now. Anyway, my finaly English revision and all it entails are also due tomorrow, I don't think I'll have that much trouble finishing that up. I mean, between now and thirteen hundred tomorrow, I'll be able to get some sleep as well, most likely, I always over-contribute time for school work, which is really a good thing because I get to sleep/watch car[t00n]s. I've contributed two hours to English and eight hours to Math, so I have a feeling I'm fine. I don't think it'd be a good idea to do Math first, I always have luck if I study immediately before a test and sleep until the time of the test. The English re-write, I'd like to add, is going to be pretty easy to do, she told me what she was looking for and I was able to argue my thesis to the point where she finally just said, "Okay! Your thesis is arguable!" So, all I have to do if shove in some quotes from the text (even though there are already plenty, she wants more to prove my point). I think she wants me to make the connection between how literacy affects people in a positive light more clear, so the reader doesn't have to assume anything... I didn't like the paper in the first place... it wasn't really an argument. Well, I'm going to get going now, probably to eat, so I might be on America OnLine Instant Messanger later tonight, between 10:30 PM and 12 AM, perhaps. Well, ciao for now!

Finals Week

Well, I just successfully completed my first final: French. It was a four-part final including a quiz, an oral presentation, and oral exam, and a written test. Naturally, I did very well on the quiz and the test, but the oral exam I think I did pretty badly on and the oral presentation I think I did high above average, but not great and such. Tomorrow I don't have any finals; however, I do have work from eight-thirty to twelve, and trust me, that sucks. Wendsday is one of my most feared finals (number two, actually) and that one's history. I think I'm all ready except I don't know a few of the dates for the identifications, where we have to explain in short detail (4-5 sentances) a specific person or thing. That's worth thirty points the rest of the test is two essays, a thirty-point non-accumilating and a fourth-point accumalative. I've luckily got the fourty-point one down, which leaves me with only sixty points to earn. Well, actually, I've got good ideas for the thirty-point essay and I have half of the "ID"'s down, so I'm on my way for History, so I guess I shouldn't be worrying as much as I am. Math, quite easily my most feared final (and Anthony, before you comment on this, prove to me that 2^n+2 equals 0 mod 2 please), I don't even know if I'll study for. I never say the necessity for the class as a CS major except for a thin amount of logic here and there when we didn't use some crazy mathematical thing to prove something (i.e. we used logic), but that was rarely. I'm going to tell her I didn't see the necessity for the class as a CS major next semester... it's really a useless class to me. Also due on Thursday is my English final revision and that's going to be good stuff, I plan to conference with her Wendsday and finalize everything that night. Finally, Friday is my Computer Science exam... wow... it's accumalitive, which means bad, and it will include definitions, but it'll also be a lot of code writing, so I'm sure I'll get above a "B" on that, and that's without studying, if I actually get around to studying, I'll do even better. This is all considering that I don't commit suicide after the Math exam. Wow, calc sounds easy, people are still talking about the first derivative test... and this is the end of the semester... I almost laughed, but I managed to hole back... by now if you don't know when to use the first derivative test, you're fucked as far as calc one goes. Well, I've got a meeting with Nathan (my history TA) at ten, so I'm going to get going now... I just wasted a good quarter of an hour writing this, so you people better have read it. Ciao for now!

Of Course I Put It Here Also...

Michael Kory Woods: On “People Watching”

“People watching” seems to be an incredible spectacle of the 20th and 21st centuries. I find it very unusual that so many average people engage in this spectacle, myself. What can we possibly get out of it? In addition, people who do not engage in it are now looked down upon, viewed as shy and perhaps even malcontent with their current situation. People who cannot meet eyes with another person today are no longer looked on as being simply shy, but also looked at as being unfriendly simply because of this lack of confidence. I argue that simply because a person does not want to ever meet eyes with another human being does not make them unusual, as today’s standards define it, but it makes them simply shy, as nostalgic beliefs would have one believe.

I believe “people watching” became popular because of society’s newfound devotion to “the corner creep.” This type of person is somebody who would stand in a corner and critique everything everybody did and memorize that action; however, “the corner creep,” would rarely have the confidence to actually look one of the people he is watching in the eye, as a more common person would. Therefore, now today’s societies are spawning a plethora of confident people who try to keep tabs of other’s lives, but fail to do so. By the way, I am not insulting the position of “the corner creep” in society, as a matter of fact, I classify myself as one because of the glee I get out of knowing things I really shouldn’t simply because I watch and listen. Moving on, society is spawning a new creature that tries to perform two tasks and fails at both.

In this manner, society will slowly become more anti-social because they will be attempting to fill a roll of a social person while attempting to fill the role of an on-looker. Doing both is not impossible, but it takes work and many people are not willing to contribute the time it takes to learn the fine art of on-looking, just as I’m not willing to learn how to be social and “fast on my feet,” it simply isn’t worth my time anymore. In the past, people were concerned predominately with their social agenda and not too concerned with other’s social agendas because they had their own to manage. However, today there are many people who attempt to keep track of everybody’s information, but many times fail to do so because doing so would be an extreme tax on their memory and their ability to care. Therefore, these people end up in a limbo between caring enough about other people to try to get to know the intricacies of their lives and perfectly balancing their own social life.

Furthermore, in the future, I believe slowly people will begin to do more and more of this skill called “people watching” and perfect it to the point where they find a safe medium between knowing about people and managing themselves. Until then, we as a society are left with three types of people: overly social, uncaring, cold idiots; people who are social, but somewhat confused about their identity, with a like to watch people’s actions, but never take them into consideration; and people who feel the need or have an addiction to know as much as possible about the people-who-they-care-about’s lives.

This is a phenomenon to say the very least, but until we weed out these people who cannot make up a decision between not caring, caring enough, or overly caring; we will be left with simply confused people who, while they may be intelligent in the academia, are stupid when it comes to knowing about people. If the people who perform this task while attempting to manage a life of their own keep continuing to do both, the deserve the final result, which is the inability to form a sentence and the inability of wasting more space in their mind to remember major events.

Wolfe Told Me I Needed to Update More

So, it's 4:41 AM right now and I just got home from one of those sexy long walks on the beach. This has a lot to do with what I have to tell you Keith, and I'm telling you, I expect a phone call as soon as you get word that I need to talk to you. I suppose that is sort of impractical seeing as the only way you could know that I need to talk to you is to go online and the only feasible way of me contacting you is via the Internet... So I guess it'll just have to be that way. I think you'll like what I have to say for the most part, it's good news, news, not advice or arrogant ranting, I suppose you could call it. Anyway, it's news in the form of a revelation (BIG, BAD WORDS BE SCURRED). Just remember that anything I say to you is to be taken as simply words and not deeply meaningful expressions and you'll be fine. As I am getting tired now, I'm going to head back to my dorm (I'm in Cudahy now... On academic campus). By the way, don't forget to make me money and check out some of the cool products (sometimes, they offer cool stuff... Other times they just offer blogs, and I don't like that), but mostly make me money and click on the AdSense bar. Well, I'm going to go now. Ciao!

Work

Hello (have you made me money today?), I'm currently at work. There's people here, I'm sort of not used to that on the weekends when I work; and, therefore, I'm not studying, which I really need to get done. I'm not working tomorrow though so I guess I'll get a little somein-somein done then. I wrote an excellent outline for history last night, it just kicks ass. I also visited some of the professors I have been wanting to visit, mainly Dr. Krenz, he's a old COSC gone MATH teacher and I always see him, so I decided to drop by. We spent about half an hour talking about school cafeteria food and then when I told him I was minoring in FREN, he seemed to get pretty sad, and I felt pretty bad, his parents wouldn't let him study the languages. Furthermore, we started to talk about his research, which included studying rats' lungs to find blood vessals, they use a 8-bit grey scale to take an image of what the lungs look like after they inject the rats with a serum that helps them see where the blood vessals are. I couldn't help but ask if he reduced the number of bits the image was taken with (8-bits = 256 levels of gray) clearer results would be produced. He seemed to think not, because most of the errors were produced when the picture was re-imaged, and not in the initial image. It's funny because the re-image is re-creating exactly what the researchers are looking for, so it's a vicious cycle, it came off a bit that they were fabricating their results, but not purposely. I guess you'd have to hear what he said in order to understand it completely. Interesting guy, that Krenz, not that I'd major or minor in MATH because of him, but interesting nonetheless. Anyway, I suppose I should get back to work now. Just don't forget to make me money!

Make Me Money!!

Hello. I'm pretty much going to discontinue the Xanga site for a short time until I can get AdSense working on that, so this is where you'll want to come for all the exciting news about ME!! Also, note below, there's a banner I want you to click on that banner at least once every time you visit this site... CLICK IT!!! It'll make me money and I want to see if it actually works!! Well, anyway, I'm going to get going to bed now, so ciao!