Shane-- come back, Shane!!

Go Team Kristy

So yesterday I received an IM from my roommate, Kristy:

"hooray team kristy... just got the [enter dirty roommate's name here] to take out the trash!"

Not only that, but I had begun an experiment in which I only cleaned my side of the vanity (for the guys: the counter around the sink) and left hers all toothpaste-y and dusty (I mean, why should I have to clean up her hair and her spit?). It took her 3 weeks, but she finally cleaned her side! That doesn't mean the actual bathroom is any cleaner, but at least it's a start. Now I know that she at least notices that things are dirty... well... compared to clean things.

Ah, Spring Break is soooooooo close...

Anyway, I'll be going to Boston for the first half of Spring Break to watch John Clark, one of the better A Cappella Recording Engineers out there, mix Nothin' but Treble's CD. I'll also be visiting Jason's sister while I'm out there. Fun fun.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

I want to move away. Far far away.

I don't understand some people, and when I don't understand someone, I have a hard time getting along with them. I'm also quite nonconfrontational, and so I let all of these little frustrations and annoyances build up until I can't stand it anymore. I like my apartment to be clean, I like to have reasonable roommates who appreciate music and enjoy what I do. I like to sleep at night and not be woken up by showers and hair dryers at 1am. I like for my toothbrush to not be wet from someone else's spit. I like for there to not be hair on my toilet. I like to cook something and have clean silverware and dishes to use. I like for there to not be food caked on the counter and on the front of the refrigerator. I like for eggs and milk not to be left on the counter for an entire day. I like for quiet hours to be QUIET and courtesy hours to be a COURTESY. I like for people to not talk behind my back, or in this case, in front of my face on the phone, in another language.

Amy, Oh Amy, why did you have to be smart and get a great co-op job in Tennessee and move away!!! I'm going insane! I really don't think I'll be spending much time at Georgia Tech after this CD is over. I will eat and sleep here and that will be pretty much a "when I have to" situation. Ugh, please let God's patience reign in me. Thank goodness I know who my roommates are for next semester... there is hope!

Appeasement

So my sister says I have to post something, and we all know that I do what my sister tells me too.

Actually, it's a rare moment when I'm actually sitting at a computer with nothing to do. It just so happens that the only reason I have time to post right now is that I am waiting for some guy's 65 page power point presentation to print in the lab before my stuff will print.

On the subject of appeasement, I have a new roommate. She's nice I guess, but it's really hard to transition from one pretty great roommate and a great system where the kitchen and bathroom were always clean to now feeling like I'm cleaning up after someone all the time. I shouldn't be doing this... I don't have kids yet. It's so dirty that on of my OCD roommates, Kristy, won't use our kitchen any more. It's too dirty for her. There's something wrong with that.

For a while, I "appeased" and cleaned the kitchen every few days, but I have a huge deadline coming up and really don't have time to do that. So, we'll see if anyone cleans before March 5... by the way, I'd be happy to come to dinner any time between now and then ;-). It's really hard to cook when there's food all over the counter and no clean dishes.

However, we did have a breakthrough today. I got over my nonconfontationalism (a word?) and asked her to make some space in the refrigerator so I could actually put my food somewhere when I go to the grocery store. She did it right away, so that was good. Now if I had time to go to the store, we'd be all set.

As it is, I must go to class now and then work on a Formal lab report. Seriously, the only reason I don't post is because I have no time. You can rag on me in a couple of weeks when my life actually gets back to normal.

Yay for good concerts!

So I'm sitting here in the library making a DVD of Saturday night's A Cappella Concert- and you will not believe how long this is taking. Now, keep in mind that this is the first time I've used iMovie and iDVD and I had to watch tutorial videos to learn how to do what I wanted. Let me lay down a timeline for you:

3:00 pm - arrive at library, wait for a computer in Multimedia Studio
3:20ish pm - finally procure a computer, firewire cable, and all other necessary items to continue my project
5:30 pm - finally finish importing all the video JUST FROM ONE NIGHT of the concert
5:45 pm - hit a problem saving onto my external hard drive- can't figure it out
6:30 pm - decide to try iDVD and see where that route takes me. Discover the awesomeness that is making your own DVD and customizing menus
7:30 pm - finally finish playing around with cool software and trying to burn to a DVD
7:45 pm - ask for help
8:00 pm - more competent guy comes along to help
9:00 pm - finally figure out how to get more space on the hard drive to save as a disk image, start the encoding process
10:26 pm - (current) still in the encoding process

Here is my projected timeline:

10:50 pm - finish encoding, start to burn to DVD
11:30 pm - finish burning DVD, go home, eat dinner, try to finish some homework, come back again tomorrow!

Tomorrow should not take as long for numerous reasons:
1) It was a shorter concert to begin with
2) I've used the software before and should work faster
3) I know the stupidity of my actions that kept me from having enough disk space to start the encoding as soon as I was done. Man, I hate wasted time.

Meanwhile, here are some cool pictures from the concert:

Yeah, freshman! Rock out!

Our boys singing a jazzy song... so cute!

Well now that that's finally over, I can relax and finish out the semester!

Thanksgiving ¿Haiku?

And now it's time for a special Thanksgiving Haiku by Staci and Shane...

Yum, juicy turkey

cranberry sauce and stuffing

pilgrims come to play!

And now, loosely translated:

¡Yum! Pavo jugo-

so, arándanos y pan.

¡Vengan a comer!

Yum, saftiger Truthahn

Moosbeeren und Anfüllen

Pilgrims kommen zu spielen

Ho bisogno di mangiare!

Et moi aussi!

Christmas list...?

My mother has requested that I formulate a wish list for Christmas. The problem is... at this point, I don't really have a clue what I would ask for. I figured I'd list what I need: printer paper... groceries... textbooks... and.. well, that's all I could think of. Those don't make for very good Christmas gifts.

So then I took to listing what I "want": a laptop... money... while those make for great gifts, I feel like I'm at the point where I should earn those things myself. Most everything else someone my age would ask for I've either already got or I don't need until I graduate from college. So, I've been forced to dig around for what I would consider "proper", yet pointless gifts:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ladies/5b3a/