Into the Semester

I've been incredibly busy this year. It's amazing how much work I've been getting done. My classes seem to be morphing into one another, and I can barely keep up with all the assignments I've had. Nearly every week, I'm working on a paper that's due that week, and when I'm not, I'm working one the three terms papers I have due at the end of the semester.

For my Global Security and International Organization classes, I'm writing essentially the same paper on Nuclear Proliferation. With the Global Security paper, it's broader and has, well, a global reach. My International Organization paper focuses on North Korea and the five nations that are encouraging it to give up the 'nukes. The final paper for my English Modern Culture and Media class is going to talk about stereotypes in modern buddy cop films. I think that'll be fun, because I get to sit here and watch Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Tucker films all day and it's academic. My parents were pleased.

I bought a new computer, so I've got something nice to watch them on. Brand-spanking new Dell. They fucked me over on it. I bought it and when I received it, the graphics card was broken. I called and complained, they told me to wait a couple of days and I'd have a new one. I waited and then no card came. I called again, they told me to wait some more days. I waited and no card came. I called again, they told me to wait two more days. They called me and told me I'd have to wait 20 days and the card was out of stock. I was pissed, threatened to return the unit and...surprise, surprise, the graphics card came on Monday. It really is a nice computer though. Plays games very well, I love the monitor, and I can have my surround sound hooked up.


I got a job at the Oswego Cinema 7. I like it a lot. I'm learning so much more than I learned at Regal. The projectors are much older, so my actual projection skill is improving. Regal had very simple projectors designed to be simple so that even the most retarded people could do projection without fear. Oswego Cinema 7 has real projectors. There's no handy windows for framing or anything like that; you just need to know how to line it up by film sprokets and stuff. Each projector has unique quirks, some don't have automation and you have to start everything manually, some take a long time to turn on the bulb...but it's fun. I'm also doing film builds. I hate taking movies apart, but putting them together is interesting and much less boring. I like all the people I work with. The only problem I have is that I work on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday usually, which isn't a huge deal, but I miss Tae Kwon Do Club.

Nothing else is really going on. I really haven't had time to do anything but work and school. It's depressing. I miss playing games and shit all the time.