Various Random Musings.

Everyday, before going to the gym, I try to talk myself out of it. Outside of once, it hasn’t worked. lol

I feel tired as hell accomplished after leaving the gym. I hope I’ll be able to stick with this long term so I can reach my major goal.

I really can be my own worst enemy at times.

One of these days, I want to be able to maintain 100% radio silence (No Twitter, no cell phone, no IM,). As a matter of fact, I want to take a personal day and just leave Baltimore for a few hours unannounced.

I only have 10 classes left before getting my degree.

I really need to sit back and enjoy the small things versus getting hung up on almost every woe and issue that comes up.

Hey, I’m High Strung. Sue me.

I love the fact that people can come to me to talk about any and everything.

Be that as it may, I still tune people out after about 20-30 minutes on the phone. lol

I fought off a minor wave of depression a few days back. You’d be surprised at how a sudden change of enviroment can change your mindset.

One Fish, Two Fish; Red Fish, Blue Fish.

Truly Random.

I haven’t blogged in awhile. I guess y’all have noticed that right?

I haven’t really been feeling blogging too tough since Summer Break started. It seems as if everytime i get close enough to computer to blog, it totally escapes my mind OR I couldn’t even begin to recall how to gather my thoughts into a cohesive series of paragraphs.

Maybe the fact that i’m in front of the computer the majority of the day at work doesn’t help either?

Anyways, here goes:

17 Days Later…

What’s good Blogland? Sorry for my extended absence. Alot of the same ol things and some new things have been going on, so let’s recap shall we?

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This past week, I’ve been in a bit of an indifferent mood. I’ve gone to class but didn’t really pay attention, gone to work and just did the bare minimum and have just been operating on Auto Pilot.

Don’t really know why either. I’ve already started to refocus though. Can’t let myself slip too much.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about starting my own business. It’s centered around Photography and I think it’s a really unique idea. I’m not gonna give it away though. I don’t want someone stealing my idea trying to make it their own, you know?

Speaking of photography, I’ve been reading up on Photography projects. I’d join a forum and then I’d have a month to complete a given assignment and then I’d submit it to the forum for review. Sounds like a good idea, no? I remember Ross Oscar Knight posting a couple projects over at his spot (peep the sidebar) but I can’t remember which entries were which.

AND I’m also thinking about starting a photography blog. This idea is still in the preliminary planning stages though. I need to start shooting more!

I need to wash clothes.

Why is it that I wake up 3 hours before class everyday (excluding Thursdays) and I make it there by the skin of my teeth every morning?

I need to go grocery shopping, and believe it or not; I haven’t been to Super Wal-Mart in a minute.

Touchless Car Washes are BS. I spent a total of $16 to get my car washed and it still looks dirty as crap. I’m gonna get it detailed one of these days…when I have the time.

It’ll probably be over Spring Break. I wish I could afford to go visit The Haitians in down in Florida. But of course, working to pay bills doesn’t leave much money to spend on anything else.

On Sunday, I almost hit a deer. That mofo jumped out into traffic as I was heading to work. Luckily, It was about 6:50 in the morning, and there was no traffic , so Bambi’s neice didn’t get mowed down. Well, not by me at least.

brran1 is/has…

…wondering how he’s gonna get everything done.

…alot of homework and studying to do, but is at work.

…wishing he could go on a vacation.

…annoyed yet relieved that his phone hasn’t rung in over a week.

…to go to the barber shop on Thursday.

Various Random Musings

School starts on 1/26 and I’m nervous as all hell. This semester I’m taking three math classes (Calc 3, Differential Equations, Probability & Statistics) and one Civil Engineering class (Materials of Mechanics). I’m in the process of making schedule using iCal and I sure hope I can stick with it.

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’ve been going hard with Photography since Winter Break started. I worry that I won’t have much time to shoot once school gets into full swing.

Last Wednesday, I had the chance to chill with Kriss and Dylan as a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, The Insanity Check. This episode was about College Days. Come through and support Kriss’ site ‘The Insanity Report’ by listening to the podcast here.
*F.Y.I.:
1. The podcast is almost 90 minutes long, so you may want to listen to this when you have the time or in increments.

2. There is a great deal of vulgar language used on the podcast, so if hearing a cuss word or 4 every few sentences isn’t your speed, you may want to skip this podcast. lol

President Obama’s Inauguration was two days ago, and I still feel a buzz around the whole thing. I’m happy to have a person that resembles me in a position of power, and I can’t help but smile everytime I see a picture of the Obama Family. Pride and skin color aside, I’ll be paying attention to how the Obama Administration handles the issues that we as a country currently face. I have faith that they’ll do what they said, but we all know how politicians have a history of being 100% honest with the people, right?

The other night after getting home from work, something told me to open the Comcast (Cable) bill. We’ve had issues with Comcast getting a little happy with charging things to our account the past couple months, so I figured that this month would be the same. When I opened the envelope, I almost turned into the Incredible Hulk in my living room. Why you ask? I saw a bill for $700. Yea. I said it. Go ahead and let it marinate. $700. For one month. We requested channels to be removed and they’ve shown up again a day or two after they were cancelled. SMH. My mother seems to think that our cable has been getting tapped into by someone, I think that Comcast just enjoys Price Gouging.

Various Random Musings

The semester is finally over, and I couldn’t be happier. Final exams are next week, so I’m gonna be hitting the books hard for the next few days.

As I’m typing this, I just remembered that I forgot to go pick up an application for the Army Corps of Engineers Internship in Germany for next Summer, and the deadline to pick up applications was yesterday. Dammit!

How the hell did Lil Wayne get nominated for 8 Grammys?

Speaking of Rap, I’ve been listening to Kid Cudi’s ‘A Kid Named Cudi’ mixtape. It was pretty good (and this is coming from a dude that NEVER listens to mixtapes). I’ve never actually listened to Mixtapes before, because I assumed that they were just new lyrics from another rapper over a track I’ve already heard before. I’m gonna d/l that new Clipse mixtape as well as the new Asher Roth one soon. Anyone know of any other ones I should check out?

My 22nd birthday is on 12/16 andI have yet to decide where I want to go. Since Best Friend E’s birthday is 12/22, we usually celebrate it together (Last year we hit up Dave and Buster’s out at Arundel Mills on her birthday, for both of our birthdays.) This year we decided to go out to eat for one birthday and go to a Bar/Lounge/Club for the other birthday. I’m checking out restaurants in DC to head to and I have it narrowed down to a couple spots. I think Best Friend E said she wanted to go to a Strip Club. I told her I’d go, but I’d only be bringing 10 singles. I’m not cheap, I’m just on a budget, dammit.

I’ve decided to take the plunge and go out and cop the New BlackBerry Curve (8900) when it’s released. I wanted the Bold, but I refuse to spend that much money for a phone. Hopefully T-Mobile won’t wait til the 12th of Never to release it.

My mother loves that Jazmine Sullivan song ‘Bust Your Windows’. She blasts it everytime she’s getting ready to go out. It grew on me afterwhile, but I have my own version for the fellas. It’s called “I Put Your Azz In the E.R.”. It’s definitely a banger.

I went to go chill with My Favorite Delta last night, and guess where we ended up… A freakin Nail Salon. I chilled in the front playing Tetris on my SK while she was getting everything filed, painted and shined. Why didn’t y’all warn me that the stench of that Acetone crap would be that damn bad? When we first walked in, I thought someone knocked the wind out of me. That’ll be the last time I volunteer to go ‘chill’ in a Nail Salon…

That Acetone crap really did synge my nose hair… (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it)

I finally got the Mac & Cheese that My Favorite Delta’s Mom made for me. On Thanksgiving Day, I sent out a mass text (with the exception of a few personalized ones) to almost 1/2 of my address book. It read: “Happy Turkey Day! Save me some Mac & Cheese!” And on Sunday, when she was on her way back to Baltimore from PG County, she actually brought me some. I was supposed to go pick it up on Monday but she’s been busier than Al Sharpton’s hairdresser on a Rainy Day.

I’ve been saying “We don’t believe you, you need more people” often as of late. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m starting to think that I give I give people more credit than they deserve when intelligence is concerned. I’ve been reserving it for instances where people deserve the ‘wtf face’, and this past week, I can recall saying it at least 10 times. Here’s an example:

An Associate: “Yea, that was a subtle (pronounced with the b) such-and-such.

Me: ” A what? Oh, you mean ’subtle” (pronounced correctly), right?”

An Associate: “No, not ’subtle’, but ’subtle’ (pronounced with the b, again). I wonder what that word means..”

Me: *insert ‘wtf face’ here* “Wait a minute, Your a journalism major and you don’t know what ’subtle’ means? We don’t believe you, you need more people.”

Seriously.