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So yeah, I haven’t been writing in this thing as much as I had planned to. But that’s just typical of myself and journals. Yay.
Over the weekend, my diet went to hell but that’s because I decided that dieting on the weekend was just going to make me miserable and its not worth it. As long as I don’t go too far out of my way to ruin it. So lets see. I had curry, and pizza.. and yeah. Everything else was mostly healthy. I didn’t eat too much at Greg’s parents house yesterday, and I ate more peas than I ate shepherd’s pie. But I did have a big piece of Bethany’s cake. Meh.
When I went to the doctor’s office on Thursday, the evil scale there said I hadn’t lost an ounce since Fall. Maybe that means I’ve just lost what I felt I had gained between now and then. Probably not. Grah. Still means I’m 10 pounds heavier than this time last year, and 20 pounds away from my goal. Grrrr. Well when I’m a grad student, I get my library access and gym access back.

Yesterday was a fairly good day. I found out, unofficially, that my graduate application has been accepted. That is exciting! No word yet as to the fellowship or assistantship I was hoping to get. I do know, that if I continue to work for the school I can get a tuition waiver as long as I am full time. Which is cool, because I’d also be getting a $1 an hour raise (on top of the raise they’ve already given me to $12). Nice!
I spoke with Justin today about doing some work for them (basically splitting my time half and half with Faculty Center and Undergraduate Studies.) It sounds like a real opportunity. I’d be one of their web developers, and pretty much working on my own. The team they have there sounds like a good solid one - they have print people, Justin is amazing with graphic design, they just don’t have a coder. So we could all make some pretty kick ass websites.

The sad thing I discovered today is that my friend from work, Jason, is sick in the hospital with pneumonia! His parents called to let us know he’d been admitted and to ask what to do about his schooling. Poor guy is probably going to have to file medical withdrawal when he comes back, which I know is a pain in the ass. Sucks. Oh and hey, the 20th was Greg and I’s anniversary. We’re not even celebrating the monthly ones anymore.

Speaking of Greg, he’s not happy. He drinks every night. It isn’t all me, and it’s not all his work, and I guess its just a bunch of things that he feels “aren’t working out” or something. I mean, one minute he’s fine but by the time night rolls around he can be moody, depressed, and feels like going to alcohol to make himself feel better. This is bad, because he’s going to become an alcoholic.

Yesterday turned out ok in the end, but I woke up with a horrid headache and it felt like my stomach was in my throat. I didn’t throw up, but I just went back to sleep. I think it was the large amount of chocolate I ate the night before. That or the half sandwich I ate after Greg from What a Burger. That or the sushi. Shouldn’t have been the sushi. But you know, come to think of it, after eating it it did vaguely remind me of that sushi we got from Snovs that tasted just the same way. And that made me sick too. So yeah, maybe it was the sushi.
So I went back to bed, and went with Greg to work when he went to work at like 1. We had quizno’s for lunch and I went and got Thai for dinner which was EXTREMELY yummy. And I helped him get some work done on his website which he’s been bugging me for for a few weeks now.
It was nice to kinda have an “off-day” seeing as work has been somewhat non-stop for the past 2, 3 weeks. That means good money, but little sleep and/or free time. Even weekends seem rushed.
So it was nice to have a day to spend with Greg and it was fun, if not a little boring because I didn’t have much to do, but it was good to spend time OTHER than just sitting at home watching television.
So back to work today. Its Mardi Gras! And also free pancake day at IHOP. Yay.

I felt like sushi this evening. But, I didn’t have the time to get the most conventional of sushi ingredients. I even had a hard time finding imitation crab meat that would work. In the end, I had to deal with chunks of the stuff, which were so tightly packaged that I ended up cutting them into strips that way, instead of dealing with taking the chunks apart and trying to find a way to put them into the sushi rolls tightly. The stuff tastes like gefilte fish, except sweeter. Must be the pollock.
Anyway, I thought I would write a quick note on what I did, and a basic how-to make the yummy sushi Greg and I enjoyed tonight. (more…)

Death is not something you think about on a regular basis. More often than not, many people try to keep it as far away from their train of thought as possible. Unfortunately for some, it’s brought into stark contrast quite suddenly. I was talking to Andrew on Valentine’s day and he broke away from our call for a few moments and when he came back on the line, he knew that one of his friends had died. It’s amazing how different a person can be with knowledge of something like that. While we had been joking and laughing a few moments before, he called me back an hour or so later and was completely broken up about it. Understandably of course. I only met Adam once, but he seemed a nice enough guy. Plus he finally had some hope looking up for him.
The tampa paper did a nice little article.

Tampa Man Killed In 1-Car Crash On I-75
BRANDON - A 23-year-old Tampa man died Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 75.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Adam J. Figlewski of 11740 N. 17th St. was killed when his Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo veered off the interstate and hit a concrete overpass support of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway. Figlewski was the only person in the vehicle.
The sport utility vehicle was headed south at 9:40 a.m. in the right lane north of the U.S. 301 exit ramp when it ran onto the grass shoulder and hit the support, officials said.
Figlewski was thrown partway from the Jeep and was pronounced dead at the scene.

So touching.

Simply stated, I’m a PHP fanatic: I can do simple things like making a page dynamic, to the bit more difficult self-validating forms and surveys. Well, those aren’t so hard, but they can be extremely tedious business.
What saddens me, though, is that I still fail to comprehend simple things like PHP classes and the like. I just recently modified a login-script which is heavy on its class use. I was confused at first how the script even worked, but eventually I figured it out. I even had to modify the thing to work with mssql. So I’ve whetted my appetite for PHP classes. I find the best way to learn is to start something like that from scratch. After all, its how I learned PHP in the first place.
So, now I find myself unhappily using someone else’s script and only vaguely understanding how it works. Plus, I need to work on making code that is distributable. Which means over-comment the heck out of it.