Having a good visit home.

Busy though, so I apologize to everyone I haven’t contacted about getting together, etc. Went to Sbbn’s wedding today… it was great, but all I have to say is this: Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright is not a wedding song. I’m just sayin.

Anyway. Must eat food. And stuff. Going to Memphis tomorrow, Home wednesday.

…because when I finally get some crazy piece of code working, I can shut the door and do a happy dance. 

1. My keywords are not working exactly as I would like them to. So weird. Don’t know how to fix it.
2. Settled on a d20 character idea. Already having fun with it. (and we haven;t started playing yet). Chad says I’m evil, but he’s enjoying it, too.
3. I will never never never understand women. So don’t call and ask me for advice on how to figure them out. ‘Cause yeah, I don’t know. Don’t have a clue. On the other hand, if you figure them out, by all means let me know.
4. It’s funny, when you’re used to coming in to work for like, 3 hours at a time, how much 8 hour days kinda suck. But that’s ok… 80 hour paychecks sure beat 10 hour paychecks.
5. I need to learn XML, which to this point I’ve never bothered with. I’m considering renewing my Safari subscription to gain access to some books… but not sure. It’s kinda pricy (about $20 a month for the base rate, $40 a month for unlimited). Maybe I should check out what ACM has to offer, as I’ve already paid my dues for the year (ouch! I forgot how much dues were once you added in SIG memberships and transactions, etc).
6. Um. Yeah. Still totally addicted to LotRO. Started running quests with my secondary… the thing that annoys me the most? It takes freakin’ forever to get somewhere. Like, anywhere. I spend more time running than anything else.

I am totally down with that. Where do I sign?

Sleep. Is good. But now that I have tiem for sleep… yeah, I’m not really taking advantage of it. LotRO has somewhat cut into my sleep (something about never getting off the computer until 10:15 or 10:30, and then having to do all the stuff you should have done before gaming…), and I’ve be trying to get out of the house early(ish) to beat traffic. This morning, didn’t work so good. I left at like, 6:45, but I had to run by the school on the way to work (the words “on the way to work” here mean “before I could go to work”, not that the school is actually “on the way” anywhere from my house). So I didn’t get to work until 8:30.

And all day I’ve been drawing little pictures. that are not icons (not that small). And trying my hand at interaction design.

1. Back at work full time, starting today. Yay for work!
2. Finished my First Year Project Paper last night at about 7pm. Also finished my stats final, and ran the exams I need to grade through the scantron machine. Double yay for being done!
3. Played more lotr online… not sure if I like it or not, but I can’t stop playing.
4. Fixin to start playing in a d20 future campaign. Have almost zero workable character ideas. If you have any ideas of dynamic female hero-type people I can model after, by all means let me know. Out of the running already: Lara Croft (already done), Tank Girl, and Ameila Peabody (couldn’t seem to figure out how to port her from 1900′s to the 2100′s), and Grace Hopper (because, alas, computer scientists aren’t heroes). I am severly lacking in inspiration.
5. Someone asked me on Friday if I could live anywhere, where would I live? I shocked an entire table of people by saying I’d live in north central Mississippi. Apparently, this is weird, as no one actually wants to live in Mississippi.
6. I miss Abner’s chicken, and lots of otehr back home food, but I’ll be back in the south somewhere around the 25th of this month… in Memphis for a couple of days, Maybe Thursday evening through Sunday morningish, then in Huntsville part of Sunday, all of Monday, and maybe part/all of Tuesday. Yay for travelling!

1. Who ever sinvented Peach & Mango Salsa should be sainted. Or granted god-hood. Or something. I would write the Vatican and suggest this (the sainting, I don’t think they handle bestowing god-hood), but I’m not catholic. So in leiu of that, I hope they make a million bucks.
2. Who ever invented finals should be stabbed in the eye with a really hot french fry.
3. I might finally regain my sanity… after May 7th. But don’t count on it or anything.
4. My hair is long anough to manage braided pigtails again… but I’m thinking about cutting it off again, too. Decisions, decisions.
5. A couple more weeks of Iron Yoga & pilates, and I’ll have the most awesome abs eVar. Seriously.
6. Lord of the Rings online is terribly addictive. As is ice cream, and caffiene, and the aforementioned peach & mango salsa.

That is all.