Wednesday, September 29, 2004

TWO comments? Aside from one and zero, this must be a new record.

Comment Commentary

Shin- Yeah, I know what you mean about Mr. Black. Can you imagine him being the Green Lantern..? I shudder at the thought.

Aleia- Oh yeah, Mulan. That one was good.. I'm pretty sure Disney did it by themselves, but again, I'm not an expert on the subject.

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I was in a lot of pain today. Those 100 situps and 100 pushups didn't really bother me that much up until I woke up this morning- it was a challenge to just sit up in bed. It hurt in the usual places (Abdomen and upper arms), but for some odd reason I felt a tense strain in my neck as well. Apparently it's because I'm "lifting with the neck and not with the abdomen."

Well good news! The actual pushup examination was today, and I ended up doing thirty-five of them, if you count the three that were sort of weak. I felt that I didn't do nearly as good as I could, but it turns out that I was second only to one other person in the class, only by a margin of two.

But who wants to hear about my thoughts on pushups? Let's move on.

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As I mentioned a couple days ago, I looked through my mom's list of USC (Or is it UCLA?) magical tome of all optional courses for the semester. Most of the classes were what you would expect.. Foreign languages, C++ and Java primers, as well as a Photoshop class. It costs $875 for twelve hands-on sessions, which led to me fantasizing about being that course's instructor and getting ungodly amounts of money for teaching people what Ctrl + V does.

The real purpose behind talking about this, though, is to rant about how skimming through the book got my mind back onto the topic of career options and my future after high school.

It's a little early for me to be finalizing my choice for a college (in the end, doesn't it come down to who gives you the time of day?), but my goal has always been Stanford. How much of a slacker am I, aiming for the ninth greatest school in the country according to USA Today? I could at least say Princeton and then say that I'll "settle for Stanford if I have to," but nope. Not even I feel ambitious enough to "aim" for Princeton.

But how in the world would I get into either of those schools? According to the magazine, you need a 4.3 to even be considered for Stanford, and I believe it was 4.9 for Princeton. Then comes the essay, referrals, SAT scores and extracurricular activities, among other things.. If I keep piano, yearbook-ness and newspaperness going through high school, they would most certainly help, but you can always do more. What exactly I could add to that is beyond my thinking at the moment, but whatever.

And as for majors, I suppose there's a few things I wouldn't mind going into right now- psychology, journalism, education or perhaps even some sort of art major, but I'm not leaning in any real direction right now.

It's sort of funny. When I was in second grade my goal was set: Astronaut or bust. Over time, though, as reality set in, that goal faded away, and now I sort of lack a strong direction. Possibilities, maybe, but one true passion, no.

Bleh. I still have five years to think about it.

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Adobe Pagemaker can be such a pain in the ass sometimes. The image margines and column markers get in the way all of the time, and even if a test box is blank you still can't put anything over it. That, of course, results in a lot of blind clicking so that you can find the problem. If the program used layers, I would be a very happy guy.

And to top my frustrations with the program, I had to type up captions for the fashion "article" today. Whoop-dee-freaking-doo.

The article, if you can call it that, consisted of a bunch of too-small-to-see pictures of the same three or four girls wearing things, along with captions. Not knowing which captions to put where, I asked if the fashion "columnist" could write down which phrases go where.

She covered the screen in sticky notes. I only had a quarter of the screen to work with for a while, and as I bobbed my head around so I could figure out where the hell the mouse was, I got extremely frustrated with the whole deal. The backspace key took quite a beating today.

*looks at the page layout for the yearbook* It's almost as if they're trying to make it suck..

Teh SillyCircus Day 45- Who needs A1 steak sauce when you can get F6 for eighty cents less?
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