I guess I should update about my life since my last update (that wasn’t deleted) :-P

The interview with Microsoft went decently, I guess. I feel so dumb… I basically had the first problem solved, I was just screwing up the final step… if I’d sorted by reverse order (i.e. largest keys first) instead, it would have worked perfectly. I didn’t realize this until I’d walked out. Meh. At least I feel good about the second problem (basic fibonacci), although the fact that he gave me such an easy problem probably doesn’t bode well for my performance on the first problem.
The interviewer was, however, 20 minutes late… and overall, he was kinda rude. I don’t know. I’ve never met an interviewer who was so dispassionate and such before. The least he could have done was apologised for being late, and he didn’t give me a chance to ask any questions at the end either. Meh. Microsoft, you can do better than that.
-_-

Um…
Monday afternoon (or was it Tuesday?) there was an interesting adventure involving a scammer guy dude and me and a friend. Things turned out okay though, so yay.

Classes are okay, I guess. I got a high C on the analysis exam (100% on all the problems except the one that I knew I couldn’t answer, which was unfortunately 25% of the exam), which makes me happy, given that it is analysis and it is hard. Graphics is starting to get unbearable, but I can’t drop it because it counts for both CS and photo, and it would put me back a semester. I dunno. I’ll get through it okay, I just really dislike the class.
Next week I have three midterms and two crits. This makes me unhappy. So much work and studying to do this weekend and such.

Meh, and probably the biggest thing… I am now officially in a relationship, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.
Not much to elaborate on there.
Whee! *bounces*

Mike sliding on acorns

Tomorrow morning is my interview with Microsoft. I’m going to fail a horrible miserable interview-death and be sad. Oh well :)

Today in alt. photo I shot and developed my first roll of 2 1/4″ film. I must’ve done a good job, because the negatives came out perfectly. I actually found it quite a bit easier to load this stuff onto the developing reel than the 35mm… probably because it’s a lot shorter and the reel has wider slots, so it’s easier to get the film in the slot… only hard part is getting it started, but meh.
2 1/4″ negatives are teh sex. Yay for medium-format film and cameras!
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I want to shoot more now. I should go see how much 2 1/4″ film and polaroid tests cost.

I’ve been getting homework done. My analysis homework is about 1/2 done (and I still have 9 days to work on it, so I’m good). Numerical methods is done, as is algo. Graphics is acceptably done (as in: it’s done enough that I’ll probably get a C on it, and I don’t care enough to do any more, which is a horrible attitude, but meh… I hate the class anyway). I guess my general apathy about classes has faded, although I’m still incredibly “bleh” about graphics. If it wasn’t for the fact that it counts as a requirement in both my major and minor, I would drop it. Mrrr.

It feels like I have no time for anything anymore, and it’s really not true… I have so much more spare time than a lot of my friends, I just spend it doing stupid non-productive stuff like napping or writing journal entries such as this one or photographing random things that aren’t for assignments. I think it’s just that I don’t have enough time to do all the non-school-related things I want to do. Oh well.

Life makes me happy. :) Yay life.
More studio shots, because I don’t know what else to post.

Let’s do something different this time and start out with photos.

I think it’s bizarre that the backgrounds to either side of him are different colors… that was not photoshopped, the picture actually came out like that (in fact, the entire series of ~15 images I snapped of him came out like that). I also just like the picture in general, I don’t know why.

This is an old one (from when Ev and I went photoing downtown; scanned from film), but I like it, and it’s not posted in art, so meh.

So I’ve been feeling this complete apathy towards my non-photo classes lately. I’m not doing as well in algo as I’d like, and instead of trying hard on this homework assignment or making sure I’m understanding the concepts well, I’m just ignoring the problem. I already managed to fail the quiz that we took last week (fail as in <60% fail, not just the "Oh noes I got a B!!!" fail). How long until I start failing homeworks? In graphics, I have a lab due on Tuesday and is only about half complete, yet I don't care enough to work on it... not even the thought of failing the class seems to be able to motivate me to do the work. I dunno. I just find the material completely uninteresting, the lectures completely bland, and the class in general to suck. As far as my math courses, I still dislike numerical methods, but whatever... I'm apparently doing well in the class. We have an exam in analysis tomorrow that counts for $large_percentage of our final grade, yet I'm sitting here not studying and not feeling guilty for doing so. I don't know. I failed the first homework for the class (<60% of the points), yet I still don't particularly care. This is a very bad thing. I think I'm going to be in for some rude awakenings when I get midterm grades this semester. Meh. I dunno. Maybe I should go study for my exam now... and then tomorrow I can work on numerical methods and algo and graphics so I'm not screwed... and then Saturday I get to shoot photos with Everett again, which I think is the only thing I'm ever interested in anymore (photographing). Blah. Edit: Okay, so writing this entry seems to have made me care a bit. I don’t want to fail out this semester. I don’t even want to fail a single class. Blah.
*goes to study and do homework*

Mmm…
Some people are full of thoughtful and awesome. Some people make me really happy. :)

Other people make me wish I didn’t care so much about other peoples’ problems. Mrr. People should be more trusting of friends/people wanting to listen and help with problems.

We made platinum prints today in alt. photo. Tried the same 6 minute exposures as Van Dyke… they turned out severely underexposed. Tried 10 minutes. Underexposed. Tried 15 minutes. Underexposed. Tried 30 minutes. Still underexposed.
I ended up setting one of my negatives for a 60 minute exposure and leaving for class. Came back afterwards, developed and fixed it, and still found it a little too underexposed.
*sigh*
On the plus side, you get amazing detail in these that you just completely lost in the Van Dyke process. Still, not sure if it’s worth the OMG DON’T GET THIS STUFF INSIDE YOU BECAUSE ITS A HEAVY METAL, the (extremely) long exposure times, the required developer bath, and the three fixer baths.

Today, as Keith and I were waiting at a light to cross the street for Joe Mamas, I was pulling my hair back to put into a ponytail… and this bum comes up behind me and puts a hand on my head/my hand and kinda runs his fingers through my hair. It was kinda a WTF EW moment…. and he smelled bad, and he was smoking, and he got my hand/hair all wet and sticky and oh god I don’t want to know what that was on his hands.
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So um… apparently there’s more than one person that likes my hair… or something.
-_-
I can’t quite decide if this is worse than freshman year when I got harassed, chased, and pushed around/down by a guy after coming out of Blockbuster. Should have called the cops on him for assault. Meh.
Stupid bums.
*goes to wash hair with antibacterial wash*

Had the weirdest dream last night, but I can’t seem to remember it now. Rest assured that it was interesting and would have been a good read. Use your imagination.

Also thinking about dying my hair red again. I’m kinda fond of the current color (a mix of copper, light brown, golden brown, and faded maroon)… but I’m also getting bored of it. What I really want is purple dye… but purple dye is expensive and not worth the money. Thoughts?

Oh yeah, Ben, sorry I didn’t make ITG today :( Office hours took forever.