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I’m working on the new site. Expect changes (and downtime) sometime in the next week.

All the content will appear on the new site, so don’t worry about that. #

Colleen and I have decided to stop talking and seeing each other for awhile. I feel manipulated by her every time we talk. She often acts like she’s in love with me, but then explains it away later. I can’t handle that anymore.

I miss my friends from USC. Casual communication, easy in person, breaks down over the summer. Since I spent most of high school with Colleen, I find that I don’t have too many friends to chill with here at home.

Last time I was writing here, I was going to tell you about how my job at Clear Channel doing web design starts today. This is no longer the case. Due to some confusion in the higher-ups concerning my pay, I can’t start for another three weeks. I love working at CC, but I’m not sure if I want to wait three weeks. I can apply to be a game tester for EA, which would probably be fun. That’s a full-time position, though. Hmm. Time to whip up a resume?

The design of this site is ready to change. I’m getting sick of it. After much consternation on the matter, I’ve decided that Moveable Type, a blog content management system, is for me. It’s great fun to do all this work myself, but it’s also a lot of work that other people have already done for me. There’s a lot of cool features in Moveable Type that would take me a long time to implement by hand — a comment system, email notification, post editing, etc. I could do all those things — it’s not beyond my skills — but I’d rather that it just work, and let somebody else do all the coding for me. Ultimately, I could do what my friends do and use some sort of blogger service (i.e. livejournal, diary-x), but I would lose the level of customization that I have here. It’s also nice to have web space and a domain to play around with.

I’ve been reading John Irving’s The Cider House Rules. It’s great. I loved Owen Meany, so this was a good choice. I think Irving is a excellent storyteller. It sure doesn’t seem like 600 pages. It’s a page-turner, and I still have a hundred to go. I can’t wait to see the movie, which is supposedly quite good.

Did I mention everything that was in my original post?

Oh - whole body massage. My new cell phone number, which has a central Florida area code, formerly belonged to some massage place. A seemingly shady massage place. I keep getting calls at 4am… lots of guys looking to make massage appointments. I tend not to answer that phone anymore unless I recognize the number.

I guess I’ve been feeling pretty depressed lately. It’s probably because I’m lonely. It might also be because I need something to do. I’ve been working out, that helps. My job situation is bad, because I was looking forward to getting up tomorrow (today) and having something productive to do. I have web design work to do on my own, but I can’t really start that until the rest of my computer gets here. It’s looking like Tuesday at this point. Who knows.

I’m tired (a rarity!) and I’m going to bed now. G’night. #

Nooooooooooooo…

I’m going to cry…

I just wrote up the Great American Novel? on this thing, and accidentally navigated away in IE, and it lost it. Gone. Bye bye.
What’s worse is that this is the second time I’ve done this tonight. Some things were just not meant to be. I’m very frustrated.

Well, here’s what I talked about in great detail: Colleen, my friends from USC, Clear Channel, Moveable Type, design, Irving, and Whole Body Massage.

I guess I’ll try again tomorrow. Or something. #

• I managed to get this computer’s ethernet fixed.
• I may have a job soon.
• I ordered Papa John’s online tonight. How cool is that?
• My computer is arriving soon. The rest of my system… who knows. My guess is that collegeboxes sold it at auction.
• [Sneaking this one in] Colleen broke my heart today.
• Star Wars comes out in about 6 days. Woohoo!
• I’m tired.
• Goodnight.

I have a lot of things on my mind, but I don’t feel like writing.

Friends, girls, school, stuff. Music industry. Having less to do gives you more time to think. Ain’t that the truth. #

Here ya go.

I’m on the way from Dallas to Orlando right now. The flight from California to Texas was pleasant. They decided to change my seat for this flight… first class. No complaints here. It’s quite nice.

Anyway, I’m finally done with the Spring semester. It went by very quickly… Exams were crazy… different from Fall. Probably the same level of difficulty, but this time it was mostly engineering stuff, which makes the experience better for me. The calculus final was hardcore; I guess I’ll find out how I did the official way. My professor skipped town right after the exam, so I doubt he’ll be e-mailing me about my grade.

I’ve registered for Fall ‘02… The next advanced physics course; the next EE course (where we actually get to do things that involve the electrical component of electrical engineering); the next computer science class, featuring a notoriously bad professor; music theory for majors; individual instruction in percussion; the eningeering honors program colloquium; a class where I get to learn to play the piano. Is that it? I think there’s more. I’ll get back to you.

I also built in space in my schedule for marching band practice. If I can play without injuring myself (some more), I want to do it. My therapist, whom I was sad to leave in mid-treatment, thinks it’s possible. After a series of exhausting diagnostics, he is certain that I hardly have any symptoms of tendonitis anymore, both at my wrist (the site of surgery) and near my elbow (where it’s been hurting lately). Instead, he thinks that I have a nerve entrapment. The causes for it are unclear; it could be from the tendonitis, from muscle overuse, from genetics, or any of a number of other things.

Anyway, the solution to this is to stretch out the nerve. That helps to fix up any scar tissue from the surgery, and should help free the nerve. It should also let me play the drums again, and enable me to write normally.

Looks like we’re heading into Orlando. I’ll write some more soon. #

Err… and the timestamp is set for PDT. Need to fix that. #

I have a few entries in progress. I wrote the first one on my handheld, and the best way to get it onto this computer would be to beam it to Jen and have her hotsync. So I’m just waiting on that.

I’m home, things are good, I’m getting 12 hours of sleep a night. Jetlagged… I keep waking up at 4pm. #