fucking in the bushes

i havent really been updating, as you can tell, ive been pretty busy. now i can take a little breather. i thought that i was gonna get screwed very bad for my material science, but guess what, it happened that one of the practice papers came to be the actual test paper -- again. not that im complaining, i actually studied, and learnt things that werent required, but was helpful additional knowledge anyway.

well, that certainly goes a long way in maintaining my grades, hopefully.

the john deere interview was something that i will truly consider an interview. not like ADTRAN. and john deere seems to really care about their employees a lot too. im not sure if i did well enough to impress them to go for another round of selection, but i did my best to do so. the good news, i might end up being in atlanta, since theres a plant nearby. i will hear from them in about 2 weeks.

i hate two back-to-back interviews with metro power inc, as well as manhattan associates, and both of these jobs will be in atlanta. they might seem smaller companies than the 3 companies ive interviewed with earlier, but these companies probably will offer more hands on experience. whatever it is, i have to make sure i do well in all of the interviews, so that i can have some choices when it comes to deciding which job i want to go for.

call me crazy, but i also am running to be the vice-president of communications for RHA. i was not sure about this, but since it is a very important position, i am pretty serious, even though i think that my chances are the lowest among the 3 of us who are running for the same position, and the weird thing is, i know the other 2, and one of them, very well. chris (swan), who is already the PR chair as well as my SAACURH buddy, is in the running too, and i really hoped that i didnt have to run against him, but i have to. the other one is john, who was my room mate during SAACURH. in a sense, its good, coz even if i lose, i know whoever wins will be more than capable, and even if i win, theres absolutely no hard feelings about it. we had to start going around to make speeches in other hall council meetings and its gonna be a busy next 2 weeks, going up and about on sunday and monday nights. i already went to brown-howell, as well as freeman-montag ones last night in the rain, and hopefully i presented myself alright. its just so weird collaborating with chris when we're both running for the same position and i really wish i didnt have to.

i will be receiving the news regarding the housing staff position later today, which might conflict with my RHA elections, but its something i can back out of. it would really suck if i got a co-op outside of atlanta, got a CA job and also won the election, coz either way, i have to give up 2 of the options, and i really hope it doesnt end up being that.

well, i can somewhat relax now, even though i have like two CS assignments, but i have ample time, so it shouldnt be a problem.

i suddenly developed a craving to go back to old times and play those RPG games on the old SNES. the fantastic thing is, i can download those games and run them on an emulator. so now i have some of the classics on my powerbook, such as final fantasy vi, dragon quest v, live-a-live and crono trigger. oh, it brings me back memories, it must have been like almost 8, 9 years ago that i was playing them. and its still fun as ever, even if the gaming scene has changed completely. its a funny contrast with me playing on the small 2-D pixel screen, whereas james is playing halo 2 on his xbox with advanced 3-D graphics.

now that i have some time, i might actually get to play a little bit. i spent friday and saturday playing dq5, and that kinda enticed dan to go do the same, and he's been playing ff6 ever since.

watched 4 very good films, much to my pleasure. i made dan and chris (maxwell) watch 'elephant' which is loosely based on the columbine high school shootings, but set somewhere else, and its just such a different film from the usual movies, especially cinematography. you can understand why it won the cannes film festival's palm d'or in 2003 after you watch it. then we watched 'i heart huckbees' which was just hilarious. fox searchlight has this trend of producing some very confusing films like focus pictures which showed 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.' then on saturday, we watched two foreign films, starting with the much talked about 'y tu mama tambien (and your mother too)' which, to me, is one of the funniest films ive seen. there was an issue with it being centered around too much sexual content and nudity, but the comedy of it superceded all that. it was very enjoyable. we were intending to watch 'three kings' but instead, we watched 'tale of two sisters' which was also incredible. very confusing, but it was kinda like 'the others' with a twist in the end, which was neat.

3 more weeks til spring break. and i just realized, on that last week before spring break, i have like 3 tests, and the elections.

dammit.