Whee…. lots of stuff happened today.

First of all, I got my cell phone. I don’t know my number yet (I will get a number assigned when I activate it), so suggestions as to whether I should get a Pittsburgh or a Phoenix area code are happily considered (I’m leaning toward a 412 number right now).

Second, I got the login and registration portion of my final project for webapps (as written about in last night’s post) working and debugged. It uses email authentication to activate accounts as not to fill the database with spammed accounts, and it also has challenges to verify human registration. Whee. I can start writing the actual content for it now.

Third, and best of all, I just spent the past 5 hours touring a coal power plant courtesy of Ben’s associate Kevin. There will soon be pictures up in photos (yes, first update in a while, I know). It was by far one of the most awesome things ever (and I have a piece of coal schlag from it too).
Here’s a teaser image until I get the rest up (which I will do before I go to bed)… This is actually looking into the main reactor where coal is burned to produce the steam. We got to look in (safe due to the difference in pressure, causing air to rush in rather than out, even though it’s over 4000 degrees inside) and see the coal streams and everything.

Only downside is that my eyes now are watery and I’m coughing a bit from all the coal dust I absorbed throughout the tour. Whee. So worth it though.

Fourth was that today was the Dean’s List dinner. I got my Klaus pin and had lots of yummy food. Not much to report about that, of course… whee.

Hey look, it’s an update.
I actually don’t have much to talk about. Meh.

There was an EOC. As usual, no one was interested in me. I really want a summer job… I wish someone found me talented enough to employ. Meh.

I’m generally feeling much better. I dunno.

It’s too early to think. Bleh. I have class in about an hour in Shadyside, so I should probably leave and start walking there in 20 minutes or so.

I had a strange dream last night where we (me and some people not from real life) were being hunted by some robots, and cast a spell to summon futuristic super-robots to our aid that annihilated the other robots (the entire battle was very RPG-like, with a huge long summoning animation and everything). Then I recieved a package in the mail a few days later saying that I had been selected for their internship (it was all apparently a test). However, it was a drama/acting internship, addressed to the wrong person (since I’d been staying at someone’s house this entire time). I walked upstairs to give it to the right person and I was suddenly in Fairfax running back and forth between peoples’ rooms with Ev. He was saying it was 5 AM and he had to go home, and I was saying it was 4 AM and I had to sleep, but we just continued running around the floor. I probably would have found out the reason for doing so if I hadn’t woken up.
Meh.

I wish my life involved more than job searching, housing foo, and homework right now, but alas…
Whee?

It snowed today. Actual, thick, sticking, fluffy snow.
Awesome.

Second day of classes went well. I suppose I should summarize on everything…

Yesterday was Portrait Photography and Graph Theory. Portrait looks like it’ll be full of awesomeness. I’m going to shoot Ben sometime this week (probably Thursday) for the first assignment. I also need to order some 2 1/4″ film and photo paper for the class. Graph Theory looks like it’s going to be workdeath and mathdeath, but soooo worth it. Mackey is the most amazingly awesome professor ever.

Today I had Networks and Web Apps. They start at 1:30 and are in the same room, one after the other. This makes my Tuesdays and Thursdays awesome. Networks is going to be hard, duh, but I’m sure I can do it. Web Apps is looking like the easiest CS course I’ve ever taken. I’ve done most of the topics for the first 3 weeks, and we only have half a semester of formal lectures since the second half is dedicated to the individual project. This project is also open ended, which means I can write that online RPG I’ve been wanting to and call it homework. Amazing.

Next Monday evening is my final class, Photography and Photographers since WWII (photo history). It seems like it should be a good course, but the reading is very dry. Mar.

Doing birthday stuff with friends is awesome and reminds me that there are people who care about me.
This is good.

I turn 20 (years old) in an hour. Blah. One of those good-for-nothing ages (as was 19, actually; grrrrr).

Meh.

I should sleep. 8:30 portrait photography beckons.