I can't believe how awesome L4D is.  I was sitting here playing when someone opened my door and dropped something over my shoulder into my lap.  I immediately jumped up and screamed like a little girl and yelled at them for doing that.

...It was hilarious.

Winter break is almost here.  God I can't wait.  This has been a disaster of a semester.

Alright well, that's enough emo for the month.  I am happy to report that my Operating Systems class and senior design class went well last night.  The OS class is with a professor I've had before, and the layout is pretty similar to Algorithms and Data Structures.  That means it'll probably be easy. 

For senior design, I decided to join the AUV group.  That means over the next 8 months I will help build an autonoumous underwater vehicle.  There are two groups, sonar and visual tracking, that I can choose from within the project.  I am still waiting on the information session tomorrow before I decided.  Next summer we get to go to San Diego and test it out against 20 something other schools from around the world in a 6 million gallon pool on a naval base.  I'm really excited about building it because we all get primers on making the microcontrollers and applying assembly code to our homemade integrated circuits to make them do things.  That's pretty fucking amazing if you ask me.

Also, my comm systems and DSP classes were canceled today, so I got off school like...7 hours early.  I used that extra time to go ahead and hit them gym.  Had a 2.5 hour workout which hurt like hell.  Now I am home waiting for Will to finish Dr. Horrible so we can play something.  Of course, after I post this I will probably start watching it too.  It's a vicious, but awesome, cycle.

"You give my regards to Saint Peter... or whoever has his job, but in hell."

Don't be confused.  This is a direct repost from my blog, http://akaman01.blogspot.com/

It's the real week of school and I just can't seem to get excited about.  On the contrary, I am scared beyond belief.  I will be taking 16 hours this semester, 3 of those being a graduate electrical engineering course, and 10 of those hours are based off of Signals and Systems.  Granted, I got an A- in Signals this summer, it was a hard A to get. 

I wasn't doing so hot in the beginning of the summer semester, and the only way I was able to turn the class around was because it was my only class and I was able to study at work.  I had so much time to understand the material.  Now, I have 16 hours of class and I am working part time 20 hours a week.  I can't quit my job because I need to pay for gas and insurance and stuff.  I cant quit school...obviously.  I can't reduce the work load because I am finally on track to graduate on time, and removing one class would add an entire semester to graduation; a semester that I have no means of paying for now that my scholarship is almost dried up.

Then there are a slew of personal problems that I just don't want to deal with.  And there are family problems that I cannot afford to dwell on.  So much is going on and I feel like I don't have an means of letting it out.  I thought blogging about it would help, but I still have that nervous, uneasy feeling I had before I started.  I need to pull myself together for my mom and dad, because I know they don't need something else to worry about, especially now.  Sadly, I fear pulling myself together will degenerate into me retreating into a mental cave for 2 weeks, only leaving for school and work related things.  I thought I had outgrown that, but it's looking real nice to me right now.

God, that turned real emo real fast...

Also, I haven't been losing weight.  I've lost a grand total of 2 lbs in the last month.  It looks like I need to reevaluate my diet and exercise plans, which just means I'll need to spend more money on food and more time in the morning.  I found a cool site with free diet recommendations and a book called "Burn the fat, feed the muscle," so Ill check that out when I get home tonight.   I hope this doesn't discourage me too much.  I've kept it up so well for the last 10 months and it would suck if I stopped now.

Anyway, I should probably get back to work...

Oh look at that.  It's still there

I got tired of all that nonsense on my front page.