I just can't believe it really. I finished my SIP. Two all-nighters in a row and a total of about 5 hours of sleep in 3 days, but its done. I'd let out a massive victory cry but that would wake my entire house up so...I'll wait till later. Here's what I'll do instead:
Victory smoke -> Shower -> Sleep
In that order. I'll catch you all on the flipside.
Either I'm about to die or I'm somehow seeing the finish line for my SIP. I'll probably make it all the way to 19.5 pages and THEN die. Kudos to Fridge for inspiring me to do this:
SIP Thoughts....
I should have concentrated more.
I should have chosen a topic with more resources.
I should have slept more.
I should have waited to buy World of Warcraft.
I should have stayed in Glasgow.
I shouldn't have changed my topic over Spring Break.
I shouldn't have procrastinated until this week.
I wish I could write like this man. Or this one.
I wish there were other people who had written about this book.
I wish I could go lie on the sofa and stare at the TV for the next 8 hours.
I wish I could sleep.
I think Thursday will be the greatest day of my life.
I think May 14 will quickly put Thursday to shame.
I think writing would be more fun if I wasn't required to do it.
I think nicotine and caffeine have saved my life this week.
I think I need to stop smoking.
I think I am going to love New Hampshire.
I think I am going to graduate.
I'm going to squeeze every last second out of this deadline. Its almost done.
Been awhile since I've been on here. Not really sure why. I think its a combination of work, school, and World of Warcraft. Though, to be honest, I think it primarily the last of those three. The game has consumed my soul, plain and simple. Sometimes I sit in class and think about which quests I should be working on when I get home. It would be sad if it wasn't so pathetic. If you want more, check out Jared's place.
So graduation is about a month away. Scares the hell out of me. Sometimes I catch myself thinking I'm still in high-school mode in which people are telling me I don't need to think about college yet, that it is still a few years away. Then I wake up and face the facts. The deadlines are mounting, I'm getting married a week after I am scheduled to graduate, I'm working 20+ hours/week at TGI Fridays, and I still only have one page written on my SIP. WTF am I thinking?
Speaking of SIPs, I changed my thesis over Spring Break. Not that its really affected me all that much seeing as I only had 5-6 pages written. For any interested, I had been seriously gung-ho about writing a realism paper about the novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Its probably one of my favorite books and its really cool that I get to write my senior paper on it. But I was having alot of trouble so I dropped the realism angle. Now I'm writing about the themes of escapism in the novel and how it is basically Chabon's defense of popular escapism. Yeah, something like that. Now I just have to write it. Hell of a week to give up smoking, eh?
On to the BIG news. Katie and I will not be sticking around Chattanooga after I graduate and we get married. We have both been offered jobs by the companies we worked for last summer up in New Hampshire and both offers are just insanely more appealing than anything we could get here. Put it this way, Katie will be making between 50-80% more money than she does here, AND she will be working in an environment she likes, AND she will have benefits that don't come out of her salary. Enticing? We thought so. As for me, I will be working as a Customer Service Rep for Waste Management once again. I've come to realize that what I had last summer was a really good situation (I mean come on, they have a freakin GYM in the building) and that coupled with the fact that I am a front runner for a permanent spot (as opposed to my already approved temp to hire position) makes me very satisfied. We already have a deposit on a sweet looking apartment in Newmarket, NH. More details will follow, but suffice it to say May 14 will be my last weekend in Chattavegas for quite some time.
What else was there... Oh yeah. A group of us caught Sin City on Friday. I've gotta say, it was everything I was hoping it would be and more. Just wonderful. Incredibly graphic in every way (sex, violence, language, its all there), but the animation is just spectacular, an excellent combination of cartoons (sorry, comics) and film noir. I loved it for the same reason I loved Sky Captain, its just fun to watch. If nothing else, this movie made me want to read more of Frank Miller's stuff. The man is incredibly gifted, both in animation and scripting. Oh yeah, Clive Owen is a stud. I really hope they make that man the next James Bond. Bruce Willis, Owen, and Mickey Rourke....what a combination. I want to meet the person responsible for casting in that movie. :)