Food/ITG

I made fresh garlic mashed redskin potatoes tonight. They were yummy. I put them over pasta, so they were kinda like inside-out perogies. Mmmmm.

In ITG news… passed Energizer Hard today (the 10-foot). Also came close to my first star… 95.88% on Pandemonium Medium. Set new personal records on Infection Hard (94.29%) and Utopia Hard (90.68%) as well. The other day, I also improved my score on Charlene Expert (up to a ~67.5%) and passed Driven (a marathon course). Yay for ITG funness. I’m also playing some doubles now, and I can pass 7s. Haven’t yet attempted an 8, because I’m still having trouble recognizing the patterns in the steps and locating myself on the two pads.

Today was the Fairfax BBQ, and there was lots of food and yummyness as well.

There are now pictures of me playing ITG, thanks to Ben.

So I’ve been avoiding large groups of people lately, and it’s working out well. I’m just so much happier when it’s just me and one other person, or a couple other people. I dunno… it’s kinda a complete change from where I was (used to seek out huge groups on purpose), but I kinda like it better this way. I’m never invited to events and foo anyway, and no one tells me about parties that are happening, so meh.

Got my graphics homework mostly done. I was getting hung up on the stupidest thing… apparently OpenGL processes transformation commands backwards, since it sticks them on a stack and pulls them out. I spent the longest time figuring out why my “translate to (0,0) and then rotate” wasn’t working properly. Reversed the order of all my function calls, and everything worked perfectly. Bleh.

Tour

There was an Underground Tour tonight.
There will be pictures of that and of yesterday’s activities fair online either later tonight or tomorrow (I’ll edit this post once I’ve uploaded them).

I haven’t eaten for the past 24 hours, just because I’ve forgotten to. Got up around 10, had a meeting with Judith about the website at 11, then had class, then worked on my graphics program for 2 hours, then had class, then went to play ITG around 4:30. Played until around 7:00, then stopped home briefly to do stuff before heading to the underground tour at 8:00. The tour just finished about 15 minutes ago, so now I’m home, and I really should eat something. Meh.

So what happens to the people after they finish walking to the sky?

They fall.

Now I should go eat, finish algo homework, shower, and sleep.

Edit: Photos posted here.
Also, I passed my first 11-foot song today

My next goal is to pass the 10-foot Energizer.

Updates

Wow, I am overwhelmed by all the foo having to do with coming back and moving in. I’m ready for classes to start so I have less to do :-P

I’m more or less moved in. Already filled a suitcase with junk that I’m bringing home over Christmas. Have some more old textbooks I’ll probably take too.

Have not yet seen everyone I wanted to, nor done enough stuff with people, but meh… what can you do? There’s only so many hours in a day.

Yesterday I played ITG with Ben, then went Waterfronting with him, then went back to his apartment to play Student Wars. ’twas fun. Wheee. I also moved stuff in and around and everything.

Today was spent playing ITG and moving in more stuff. Also went to Alisa’s place to take pictures of her kitten. She’s so cute!! Ahhhh! Then was a floor meeting and foo. I feel sorry for Apphia and Mars… they are currently in the process of moving stuff from storage (they rented a UHaul for today), and the weather is crap… it’s been drizzling on and off all day, and it was pouring the last time I went outside. Meh. That’s Pittsburgh for you.

Had horrible bus luck these two days. Yesterday Ben and I waited like 30 minutes for a 64A to Waterfront, and then about 30 minutes for a bus back. Today I waited 50 minutes for a bus to Alisa’s. Meh.

Ben with his coil gun… OF DOOM!

Keith with the best OS book ever… it has dinosaurs! Using computers and iPod-like music player things!

Someone should get pictars of me playing ITG. I want pictars of me playing ITG. Wheee!

Moving in *dies*

Meh. Yeah so, I haven’t slept for the past ~32 hours (I tried really hard last night). The extent of my food intake has been the meal my mom packed for me, some snacks, and a salad at lunch today. Mrr. This is probably a bad thing.

So first off I want to apologise to anyone who I’ve ignored, blown off, shrugged off, confused, or otherwise made feel unimportant in the past day (in particular Everett, Ben, and Grant). Things have been extremely chaotic, and I have literally been doing stuff since 7 AM this morning on no sleep. There’s just so many of you I want to see and so many things that I want to/had planned to do when I got back, and my brain is kinda overloading right now. The fact that I’m trying to do everything at once (ITG! Moving! ITG! Chat!) doesn’t help matters.

I also discovered that playing a set of 10-rating ITG songs on no sleep is a terrible idea. This should come as no surprise.

Um… so we moved in today (as in got all our stuff), and moving in sucks. Getting our boxes out of Hamerschlag storage was surprisingly easy. Getting them into Keith’s car (OMG it’s a lifesaver) was also easy. Getting the car into and out of the Fairfax alleyway to get the boxes up to the room was hard. Very hard. At one point Keith had his car stuck and wouldn’t be able to move at all until something freed up space. Meh.
Then we helped Ian get his boxes. Blah.

Our room still has way too much furniture in it, and the bathroom still hasn’t been cleaned. I really want to shower tonight… I really need to shower tonight. Grargh.

All my clothes are still at Alisa’s place. Must get them tonight still. Grargh.

I really think that, next year, I am going to hire someone to take the boxes away and bring them back. The cost is more than worth not having to go through this again. *sigh* I really don’t know what I would have done if it wasn’t for Keith and his car to help me move and carry boxes.

Oh look, it’s only 6 PM.
Another 6 hours before I can finally collapse into sleep. Another 600 things to do before then…
Dinner. Get boxes at Alisa’s place. Waterfront for supplies. Geagle for food. Unpacking necessary stuff. Showering. Foobar. Sleep
Gaah.
*runs off*

I have pictures, but I really don’t have the time or the energy to post them.

Edit: 12:30, and still not done with everything. Gaaah.
Here’s a picture, at least (the built-in memory card reader on this thing is so fast!!! <3)
This is the main room (the sleeping/working area) with the excess furniture and all our boxes. Bathroom/huge walk-in closet to the right and kitchen to the left.

Foo

Fiddlesticks has a $0.75 ITG machine.
The Fiddlesticks ITG machine lags such that it is impossible to play. Waste of $0.75.
Fiddlesticks has a $0.75 joint premium DDR machine.
The pads are coming apart to the point where it’s nearly impossible to play. Relative waste of $0.75.
Meh.

In about 24 hours, I will be on a plane home. I suppose this makes me happy, whatever definition that word has anymore. I guess I should pack or something. Meh.

This afternoon will be Gameworks with Josh (assuming things work out). Hopefully it’ll be fun… I have gone to Gameworks about 9 times over this summer, and spent around $75 there, and played just about every game there. Meh. They really need to get an ITG machine.

No picture because I’m lazy. Meh. Lazy lazy me. Also not really in the mood for photography.

Hm… I don’t think there’s really a point to the “Feeling” field in posts anymore, until something changes. Wheee.

Amazing