Brian Fields

So I just now finished things up on the site all the pages are updated with the new coding and everything is good as far as I can tell… or care.

My weekend was pretty busy. On monday alone, I had a test in American History, A paper due in Technical Writing, a speech in Public Speaking, and I THOUGHT I had some sketches due for Director, but they ended up not being due. To top that off, I had a project due bright and early on Tuesday for After Effects and a good deal of questions/problems for Accounting. So I spent my Friday night sitting around in my room with nothing to do working on some homework and working up a good buzz because it sucked not having anything to do after a busy week.

Saturday, I spent most of the day searching for some nameless software to complete some nameless homework with. I finally found a working version shortly before dinner and when I got home got to work on my project, which consumed most of my night. Sunday, I worked on other homework and sat around a bunch and worked on homework later in the evening again.

Now it’s Tuesday.. no… Wednesday, and I finally can relax a bit. Mike and Doug should be coming over soon, but all they really care about is the OC and Madden. Big whoop.

My speech went fairly well. I think. I got my test returned today and he said I did pretty good, but I can’t read his damn writting or decipher his marking system to know how I did. The Tech. Writing paper was perfect, with some good comments and I seem to have gotten ahold of my accounting assignments, so good deal there. My director sketches were a little sub-par apparently but hopefully this weekend I’ll get some time to start the project and have something to show for myself.

As far as this XHTML compliancy thing goes, I’ve got a couple more pages to do and I’m working on the news script to make sure it is posting the news with my editing XHTML. I think the only thing that isn’t working completely is the line break tags.

So that’s why I’m posting this — to find out!

Word up, I’m out.

-Brian

I can’t believe tomorrow is Friday already. Not only is it cool because it’s Friday, it’s cool because Friday is my short day at school. only 3 classes, 3 hours.

Tonight and Last night was learning some new things about XML and W3C standards, and revising the code of my site to comply with it. Why? Dunno, really. I think it’s just time I learn something new about web languages. So if parts of my site look a little funny for a few days, it’s because I was messing with the code and haven’t figured out the compliant way to re-write it. This news script has the most problems with it, so I figure I’ll either say screw it and fix everything but it, or see if I can easily fix things by editing the code for it. The only problem is that news already created won’t be edited, so I guess I’ll have to make a few lame daily updates to bump the old news into the archive.

Anyhow, it looks like my weekend is going to be pretty busy. I have a project to finish in After Effects. So far the material for it is looking pretty ace, but putting it all together is going to be tedious and time consuming. I’m going to try and get that started tonight so that when I’m slacking off tomorrow I can worry about it, Saturday I’ll open it and forget about it, then Sunday I’ll actually do it, long before my deadline Tuesday morning.

I have to draw up sketches for my first Director project. (It’s kind of our second, because the first is just doing activities from the book.) I’d go through explaining it in detail, but you don’t care, so I’ll just same we gotta do a cheezy promo site as if highlander is going to be aired on some phoney tv station. The requirement are minimal, but incredibly limiting. I think I have a bit of an upper hand because I watched one class present this project a couple terms ago.

That’s all for now I guess. See ya.

So after my first complete week of the new term, I went home Friday excited to go to OU later on. Mike had asked me to go Tuesday and somewhere between then and Friday Doug and Kristin decided to go, too. Carrie, one of the girls we met up with in Myrtle Beach, had her 21st birthday this past week, so of course no college student’s 21st birthday would be complete without a party.

We got to OU about 6.. or so… and met up with Brownie and his roomate Ben (who I knew from high school, but had never really talked to) and we wondered around OU and downtown Athens for a bit before going to the Carrie’s apartment. The entire campus and surrounding town is goregeous. I’ve never seen anything as lively and exciting as it. It really makes me wish I had gone to a place like that, but I suppose I’m content with my awesome 2-building college. :-\

So anyway, Carrie’s party was pretty fun. I didn’t drink much because I had so much to eat beforehand. The police showed up and told us to quiet down, but no big deal, really. Mike said that he was taking a whiz in the laundry room down the hall no more than 10 seconds before the police stepped off the elevator. Shortly after this, we left and went downtown again to a place called Goodfella’s pizza. Downtown Athens at night looks like the crowd at a concert. The sidewalks are filled with students loaded with alcohol, police stationed looking over, and lord knows what else.

Afterwards we decided to call it a night. Mike stayed in Brownie’s room (which probably couldn’t fit more than a few people) and the rest of us stayed with Betsy. I laid in bed from about 2:30 until 5 or so, not able to sleep. I woke up at least every 20 minutes until I noticed Betsy wake up at 10 or so. Then I figured it was time to get out of bed.

After we got ready, we met back up with Brownie and Mike, caught a fair breakfast at some quasai-ghetto cafe place and soon thereafter went to play some frisbee. After playing frisbee for a while, we went and grabbed ice cream. By the time we were done there, it was somewhere in the area of 3 o’clock, Doug was supposed to be to work at 5, so we figured we better get going.

We got back some time around 6 and me and Mike just hung around his place for a bit. We made plans to go to see Kill Bill vol. 2 with Joe, but beforehand we stopped by Best Buy to poke around for abit. I managed to show some restraint and only bought an album by the Balck Eyed Peas. So yeah, movie, home, then bed. I don’t think I could have stayed awake to save my life.

Today has pretty much just been boring… but in a good way. I gave Casey a haircut, took a nap, went to dinner, and now I’m on my computer. Weee!

So yeah, all in all, my weekend was relaxing. Which is good, because I imagine things are gonna start to pick up at school this week. I guess I should probably do a bit of homework tonight, but I think I’m enjoying being lazy for now. Oh well. See ya.

Well, I’ve had all of my classes at least once and things seem like they’re gonna be all good. I’ve spent $200 on books so far, $50 for a parking pass, and I still have about $150 to spend on more books

So I was hoping I could get by this term without working, but it looks like there is no chance of that. My dad will probably pick up my last check from Cast-Fab tomorrow, which will promptly be spent on bills. :stress:

Any remainder will go towards the rest of the books I need, which sucks some big ones.

The scholarship I got from the AFS turned out to be $600, written directly to me. I think I’m going to try and invest that somehow… not necessarily stocks, but I think since most student loans don’t accumulate interest until you are out of school, it would be worth my time to see if I can pull off another $50 out of that. Rather than spending it right away on tuition.

As far as my classes go, they seem like they will be pretty easy. I have Adobe After Effects with Jason, so that class shouldn’t be hard.

I have Director with Dave and although I don’t really have a problem with his classes his projects always end up being very limiting and a pain.. but learning the program itself doesn’t seem like it will be too hard. I was supposed to have Director today for the second time, but David was sick, so I won’t have it again until next Monday, which kind of sucks because that means we’ll have a lot more work to do next week.

I had my first Accounting class yesterday and the Instructor was an hour late. Apparently she got the times of her classes mixed up… To be honest, sitting there staring at the walls waiting for her was more exciting than that class. That class is like going to the bank and reading all the literature that have sitting around. It sucks. It should be easy, but the lady seems like she’s trying to worry us about the comprehensive final. You can’t pass the class if you don’t pass this. Who knows though.

My Public Speaking class and my Technical Writing class are easy as pie. PS is like high school speech all over again, but without a rotting old skeleton woman for a teacher. Technical Writing is basically how to write memos and emails. Whoopdie do. Breeze classes.

My American History class seems simple enough. All stuff I’ve heard in high school. So far, in two days we’ve covered prehistoric times until the Europeans came to America. Moving right along. The very major downfall to the class is the instructor. I’m not trying to knock him, but he’s pretty much straight out of Africa. Not saying that in a racist way, but he has a thick African accent, is very stern, and very uptight about things. The guy is huge, too. He scares me, so I just take notes and hope everything goes okay. He seems like a great teacher, but he hasn’t given us a syllabus, hasn’t told us anything about testing, brings only hand-written notes to class to teach from and will apparently only do things his way. Very strict, but I don’t think I’ll have a problem in there.

I haven’t seen kitty at all this term That kinda sucks. Seeing more of her would defiately be a good thing.

I have to do my taxes tonight. Yeah, I’m lazy. No surprise there. Then I have some homework. I’m thinking about renting a movie, too. I should probably get this stuff done, so I’m outta here.

Saturday night I was playing baskeball with my cousins at my Grandpa’s 75th birthday party. I fell over, but my foot stayed in place until I hit the ground. It felt fine at first, and I went to work afterwords. Around 1 or so it really started hurting. I finished out the night because I knew it wouldn’t go any later than 3 (which because of the time change was actually 4, but there wasn’t a change in the hours worked so whatever.)
I could barely drive home. It was killing me. I got home, hobbled upstairs, took the most half-assed shower ever. Then I popped some asprin, went to bed. I woke up and it still hurt like hell.

So I spent the day in bed watching movies with ice on it. Then I did the same thing yesterday. It was feeling a bit better, but I had to call off work because I know it would have felt like hell if I stayed on it all night. So when I called off, my dad insisted that if I was going to call off work for it, I was going to the doctor for it.

Basically, I agreed to go just to make sure it was nothing worse than a simple sprain. They took an X-Ray and noted some bruised bones, but nothing was broken. The doctor told me to use heat, as opposed to ice, and to soak in warm water with epsom salt. I don’t have a clue what that does, but it must be doing something because today I am actually able to stretch my ankle. It hurts when I go too far, but as opposed to yesterday, it WILL move.

I just got home from work. It’s Saturday morning, my hands and face are tinted black from the dust and dirt from work and I’m waiting for Joe to get out of the shower.

So Myrtle Beach was a blast. It was so relaxing, even though there were some things that sucked. Omega was obviously one highlight of the trip. I miss Omega. I have a small selection of pics, but I’m too lazy to get the link. Maybe later.

At work, things have gotten a bit cooler. Since my replacement can handle the lab by himself, I’ve been working out on the deck, doing some work that is actually challenging. I won’t bore you with the details (yet) but basically it’s melting the metal, adding alloys, cleaning the metal up, getting the samples, taking temps and then starting over. It’s really wearing me out. I can feel myself getting stronger from the lifting and crap I gotta do. That’s a good feeling.

Anyways, I’m done with Cast-fab in a week. I wouldn’t mind hanging around and helping out where I can, but I got an amazing 21 credit hours for school next term, and I just wanna find a job somewhere that I can work like, a night or two a week and on the weekend, just to have gas money and money for my car payment. I have a healthy amount set back from working at Cast-Fab, but books and tuition are likely to destroy that.

So why the hell did I schedule 21 credit hours? Well, I was anticipating classes being cancelled, but they weren’t… but the good thing is that a review of my status at school shows that if I finish all of these classes, I’ll have only 4 more left, then two co-ops. I don’t remember if those 4 includes the final project. So if I bust my ass, there is a chance I could graduate by the end of the term. MAYBE, I could get a co-op for the summer term and take two classes at night (uggh) then do the same thing next term and be in a very good spot. I’ll worry about that in a little while though. Gotta focus on the right now until I get back in the groove of school.

So yeah, since I don’t plan on working too much I’ll have all (or most of) my nights open, so if you want to do something, lemme know.

Anyway, Joe is out of the shower and there is no sense in me sitting around being stinky, so I better go.