Fools Devotion

fools_devotion @ 2008-03-10T14:18:00

2008-03-10T18:20:52Z

Div-freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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*thud*

fools_devotion @ 2008-01-05T10:38:00

2008-01-05T15:45:05Z

Marriage today, honeymoon tomorrow till the 11th.

fools_devotion @ 2007-11-27T02:06:00

2007-11-27T07:26:56Z

http://www.hampshire.edu/gallery/cposters/

This is seriously what I get to choose from for a commencement poster?

1- I now it's an artistic representation of the campus, but seriously, Hampshire has more than the library and the RCC. Did they finish drawing that little bit and say "fuck it, I'll fill the rest with sketchbook doodles"?. It's not even a decent doodle, what's with that clusterfuck of intersecting lines in the middle-right?

2- The thumbnail had me interested, until I got the full size image and saw that someone photoshopped the chair. Is that what Hampshire has come to, so fucking lazy that you can't drag a folding chair into the woods for your "artsy shot"? Christ, we have dozens of digital art majors here, throw one of them the source images and they'll at least have the skill to not make it look like assignment #1 in a 100-level course.

3- The Hampshire tree may be cliche, but at least this has a level of artistic merit. I actually wish there was more context here, as I'm curious if it's an original digital work or a scan of a material work. Either way, my vote goes here.

4- What? Commencement posters should capture a particular element (event, place, whatever) or idea that has some connection back to the school. I don't care if it's "Hampshire" spelled out with dog turds, at least I could laugh and still know it was about my school. This is something I'd find on an overpriced postcard at a modern art gallery.

5- LOL ANIMU. I have nothing against anime, Jen's Netflix history pins me as a horrible nerd; but this is amateurishly drawn and has no cohesive message. Is it telling me to leave Hampshire, settle down, and start (re)educating myself? Why is the means of travel and discovery being destroyed, and knowledge being forced through only one channel? Also, learn to draw leaves, a round brush with 70% hardness is not a replacement, it just looks like disease and pestilence.

And of course in the typical Hampshire way, I can't actually NOT vote for any of these. I have to rank my choices one to five....and the ranking page gives an error when you try to vote.

:(

fools_devotion @ 2007-05-27T21:55:00

2007-05-28T02:15:54Z

They say crashing on a bike is not an "if" but a "when", and apparently my "when" was yesterday. I rounded a left-hand sweeper at ~40mph, fixated on the shoulder, tapped my front brake, and hit the gravel on the edge of the road. My bike continued off the road, went airborne, struck a tree on the left fairing, spun 180, and slammed the rear into a boulder. I bounced once on my left knee, and then slid on my left arm/back another 20 feet down the shoulder of the road.

Sad bike:

Tree vs plastic, tree wins:

Boulder vs subframe, exhaust, and plastic, boulder really wins:

The knee that I bounced on, imagine if I was only wearing jeans:

The arm I slid on:

I'm fine apart from some major bruising and soreness, thanks to the fact that I was wearing full gear. The bike is most likely totalled, hopefully the insurance should just cut a check for a new unit.

I'm incredibly lucky to have been able to stand up as soon as I stopped sliding. I can't stress enough to anyone who reads my journal and rides as well, wear your gear, every time. If you took out my MSF training and proper gear from the wreck, I would have been riding down the mountain in an ambulance.

fools_devotion @ 2006-09-16T20:43:00

2006-09-17T00:45:36Z

Also to note, kittens do not like E Collars, and emergency vet visits/surgery are freaking expensive.

fools_devotion @ 2006-09-13T19:13:00

2006-09-13T23:14:10Z

I never knew I could fit two kittens and a laptop on my lap at once. Mind you it makes typing a tiny bit difficult.

fools_devotion @ 2006-05-31T22:20:00

2006-06-01T02:28:39Z

Sold the scooter today, didn't realise how attached to that thing I got. But bills are bills, and now I can cut a good 40%+ from my debt. On the plus side, own a 1981 Kawasaki street bike now, just waiting through a painful week for new brake parts before I can ride again.

Hate hate hate my job, it feels like being in elementary school again. I'm not allowed to even tell my coworker to not do something stupid, I have to go through teac...errr...one of my 3 bosses first. Else I'm apparently "chastising" them. Nor can I leave my booth without telling someone; I'm really tempted to print out a hall pass to carry with me. Searching desperately for a new job, but god does the valley suck for employment that's not landscaping, nursing, or teaching.

I know people are around this summer, I need to find them and socialise, before I put a staple through someone's eye socket at work.

Bitchin'

2005-08-27T01:55:20Z

From 21 miles to the gallon to 100 miles to the gallon, what a difference a day can make. I'll be riding this beast around in just about any weather that doesn't involve snow or water on the ground, to and from work and Hampshire. It can beat most cars off the line from 0-20, too bad it rapidly falls off after. Still gets me to work cheaper, faster, and in a hell of a lot more fun of a manner.

fools_devotion @ 2005-08-05T16:28:00

2005-08-05T20:31:29Z

Damn, I forgot how many people can be squeezed into a single block of concrete structures. It is nice seeing life in Boston, versus the humdrum of lovely Amherst. If anyone out in the area still reads this, gimme a yell, (413) 237-2001. I'm looking at you eyesaq.

fools_devotion @ 2005-04-25T21:17:00

2005-04-26T01:19:07Z

Being able to live off campus for next year really lets me see how brutal the housing lottery is...

Blargh

2004-12-05T09:05:34Z

Jen's sleeping on my bed pointed the wrong way, with a notebook as a pillow. Meanwhile, I can't/don't want to sleep, but I feel a random compulsion to yack.

I'm driving all of Jen's stuff to Amherst on the 18th, it's gonna be weird. She'll be all of 10 minutes away from me, as opposed to an hour and a quarter. It also means that I'm really going to have a new home, somewhere I can move my stuff to and not have to worry about my parents selling off the place within a couple years. Now, if only so much of this didn't hinge on RadioShack keeping me as an employee after the holidays. I know that I'm beating all the new hires and even an old hire or two in sales, but I still can't help feeling doomed. Just have to wait and see I guess, just wish this wasn't such a life-changing thing.

fools_devotion @ 2004-11-21T23:12:00

2004-11-22T04:15:39Z

Well, I figure this will filter down through friends anyway, so: Jen and I are engaged. She proposed (yes, she proposed) to me last weekend, and it only took a little prodding to get my blabbering self to say yes. We're not planning ceremony or any of the like until we're both out of school, but it's an important thing to both of us, and I'm glad that dork got the gall up, would have taken me a bit longer.

fools_devotion @ 2004-10-21T01:14:00

2004-10-21T05:19:59Z

Woo, so I'm...still alive and whatnot. What's been going on with the Gene you ask? If you didn't ask, TOO BAD!

Lesse, biggest new thing is work, got a swanky post at the Radioshack in Northampton. Great manager, friendly co-workers, and surprisingly few irate customers, though we aren't quite in the Christmas shopping season yet.

Schoolwork has been...a tough issue. I guess I keep feeling like I have all these huge swaths of free time that I really don't. Then, once I've lulled myself into believing I have plenty of time, I end up throwing together something half-assed towards the end. It's getting to the point that I actually asked a professor not to play my animation during the class presentation today, ouch.

Hopefully, once Radioshack actually decides to pay me and I sink into a better work schedule, I'll get off my ass and do work on time. The last thing I want upon graduation is a portfolio full of 5-second clips of basic geometric shapes awkwardly moving around each other.

And now, I collapse, since I almost passed out during work in the middle of my biggest sale so far (thank you HP+iPod).

fools_devotion @ 2004-09-22T02:30:00

2004-09-22T06:30:56Z

Cruxshadows....ngh...so good...even made losing $5 from my pouch seem trivial.

fools_devotion @ 2004-07-24T23:22:00

2004-07-25T03:28:48Z

Today I:

- Saw a police sniper in the yard across the street.
- Was evacuated from my girlfriend's house on account of a suicidal man two houses down.
- Spent 2 hours in McDonald's calling the police department to see when it would be safe to come back.
- Spent another hour at a shopping centre overlooking the entire suicide/hostage situation.
- Watched through binoculars as a dozen-man SWAT team stormed the house.
- Heard 4-6 gunshots.
- Watched as the front door team extracted themselves and called for an ambulance.
- Witnessed the now freed hostage walk up and down the street in some sort of drug-fueled haze.
- Still have not seen nor heard anything further on the incident, nor do I know if the man is still alive.

sigh^2

2004-07-19T16:24:55Z

So much for Circuit City, looks like my half-hearted effort on the original application hurt me in the long run. But of course if my "situation changes" and I end up staying in Lunenburg beyond the summer, they of course have an open position! ....right.

sigh...

2004-07-17T18:50:34Z

And of course the manager at Circuit City I talked to asked me to call back on Monday if I haven't heard anything. I suppose it's better than a "don't call us, we'll call you" type line.

Interviews

2004-07-17T15:25:46Z

Woo, interview with Circuit City at 2 today. Interview with Radio Shack on Monday. And now begins my descent into the mires of retail.

fools_devotion @ 2004-02-16T09:58:00

2004-02-16T14:58:08Z

Step 1: Open MP3 player.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: Write down the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing

1: Korn - Chasing Me
2: :wumpscut: - Dying Culture (2nd movement)
3: Seabound - Watching Over You
4: Danny Elfman - Jack's Obsession
5: Tenacious D - Dio
6: Spineshank - Transparent
7: Beethoven - Septet in E-flat major Op20 (1800) IV - Tema Con Variazioni; Andante
8: Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie [Sympathetic Mix]
9: VNV Nation - Beloved (Hiver & Hammer's UK Dub Trip)
10: More Machine Than Man - Mode 3

That was....interesting.

fools_devotion @ 2004-02-16T00:46:00

2004-02-16T05:45:54Z

*waves goodbye to his teenage years*

Well, as of 42 minutes ago, I'm 20 years old. Twenty years, probably around a quarter of my lifetime. It's not something monumental, but something about it just sits strangely, like a new coat pressing on my shoulders. Maybe it's because my Div II has gotten me thinking about what I want to do with myself, where I want work to take me. I guess I just see this whole new wave of responsibility and challenge rolling up, but I still wanna build some sand castles...

fools_devotion @ 2004-01-23T03:44:00

2004-01-23T08:44:40Z

All the lights are hung and circuited. If I ever find out who wired that last breakout box, I will hurt them. No, you can't start hooking up the circuits right to left when every other box in the studio is wired left to right...

*twitch*

fools_devotion @ 2004-01-20T16:18:00

2004-01-20T21:18:21Z

Know what's sad? My floor looks weird to me now that I actually vacuumed it. It's really too bad I won't have free weekdays this coming semester, I can get an amazing amount of stuff done.

Light hang tonight, joy. Hopefully I'll have a lacky or two, I really don't feel like clambering up and down ladders all night, especially on a raked stage. At least I'm finally doing something for this show, the first few production meetings, I just gave a thumbs up when we did status check. The one thing that's nice about our setup in the studio theatre is that we have 1-to-1 circuits, no patch panel. Channel 1 is circuit 1, and I'll be damned if that's going to change! Well, ok, I could change the mappings, but we're already using one of the bitchest boards known to man.

Yep...stuff...

clang

2004-01-17T04:44:15Z

So as not to make an entry that strains your browser's scroll bar, a summary of my blacksmithing projects this term to date:

Simple S hook

Simple wall hook

S hook with 1 full twist

Spiraled candle holder

Grill fork

Other than hitting 900° pieces of metal with a large hammer, the show is coming up in a couple weeks. Helped gwystal with the set, always wondered what EDH was like at 1am. Got all the horribly patched together electrical systems in the studio working right, some of the wiring was just...stupid. Nothing planned for this weekend, no one seems to have an idea of what to do; such is Jan-term. Next week is the last week of Jan-term classes, then I start actually having to do things for the show. At least a certain someone will be around for a few days to keep me from exploding from stress.

Meh

2004-01-15T04:17:34Z

So, yeah, life is...going. Blacksmithing this semester, much fun. Already made a functional candle holder, now working on a grill fork. Other than that, bleh. Just frustrated with how little there is to do here, bored with all my computer games, everyone else is taking real classes, and I have nothing to do for the show for another week and a half. Watch me eat those words when the production is in full swing, heh. Did at least apply for summer employment today, a technology camp called internalDrive. They run one branch over at Smith, so I'm hoping I'll hear back from them soon. I was at least early this year, applied the day their app came out, unlike last year's last ditch efforts; remember where that landed me? So, yeah, hopefully I'll maintain my motivation to update this thing now, god knows I have enough time, I just need things to actually write about.

PS - Better, Meredith? :Þ

sighs happily

2003-10-02T17:42:01Z

Wonderful things are in the air.