My Life, My Stand

So, I've never had a time in my life when watching videos were so productive. But with the introduction of video casts, it now is. I have hours to watch.

Here is a list of things I need to watch:
- The cocoa casts up to where I am in the textbook. http://ping.fm/Sx9aA (About 2 more hours before the next homework)
- The javascript videos http://ping.fm/wdZtg
(about 2 hours)

And for fun, I am going through the Macgyver series, but that's not considered productive.

I just finished watching Omnifocus's videocasts. When I get the iphone, I will be buying the Omnifocus GTD app. it's only $20. I don't really like thier desktop interface, but the iphone one looks rocking! I'm excited.

So I have been under some light pressure to join World of Warcraft (as mentioned in my last post). Well a thought just occurred to me about it. My main reason for not joining is the large amounts of time I will spend not being productive because of this game. I will spend quite a bit of time on it, I'm sure as the game does sound fun. I have a to-do list that is really long. Those things normally don't mix.
But the truth is, I spend most of my time being unproductive anyway doing things like monitoring twitter and plurk, tweaking the blog, watching MacGyver, surfing Facebook, surfing the web and more! There are days when I do very little productive work. So maybe things won't really change if I join WoW. It would probably just replace some surfing.
It could even be good if I make playing it dependent on getting the task of the day done. That may even be enough to combat the surfing tendency... so hey, it may actually be good for me.
So a couple points in favor of WoW. I'm not completely convinced yet. I'm scared to start it and find this analysis to be wrong.

So today was interesting. Odd. Fun at time. Sucky at times. But that is what life is, right?

I'm not sure I mentioned it before in my last post, but I love my summer job. I work with really kool and friendly people and our lunch conversations are nothing but laughs. It's great! Nothing is better for your day then laughing for an hour.

One topic of discussion was addiction. I have a very addictive personality... I get addicted to things really easily. Be it a certain food, an activity, a book, a game... once I start i can't seem to stop myself. This is to the detriment of everything else in my life. This topic arose in one of the many times I was told about World of Warcraft and how great it is. The thing is... I believe them. It sounds awesome and right up my alley, but that, my friends, is my downfall. I don't need something that is up my alley right now. I need to get the things that I need to do done. Those would be my 9 main goals. Once again, I did nothing on any of them today. :-( Actually, I have a run kitty run post that needs to be finished for tomorrow... guess what I'm doing next. ;-)

According to my schedule, tomorrow's main task for the day is suppose to be my ebook. The topic's a secret, so don't ask me to tell you. But yeah, that's tomorrow. Research and writing for that. Kool. I will prolly go to Te after work... oh that's right, no lap top so I can't write. Oh I can't wait to get that Neo! It's going to kick ass! It's suppose to show up thursday... I hope its early thursday.

I'm going to have to divide up the 8 files that it comes with. OK...

1 My Novel
2 My Ebook
3 ML Biz Plan
4 My Computer Program notes
5 ML Website Notes
6 Run Kitty Run
7 Ideas List
8 Journal

Well that sounds pretty good. Oh course, it will change once I use it.

So, I just decided to start posting these at my old blog again as well as in LJ. The old blog was about changing my life one day at a time, and I guess that is what I'm still doing. One day at a time. Just not numbered. I may pick that meme up again, but not today. Today you just get a post. A little piece of my mind. Glad to be back.

I'm tired and have a post to finish. G'night all!

I just got an account with ping.fm, which lets me post to a bunch of websites from one website, so I thought I'd try this out with a post. No promises on whether or not I'll post more regularly... but maybe.

It's the middle of summer and that means that I am getting to the point where my attention is turning away from my current projects. I'm the kind of person that goes through cycles of productivity. I am really focused for a month, then the next month is a free for all of procrastination. This doesn't have very good side effects, especially in school. I am still working on controlling this.

Today, I was planning to work on my cocoa application project that I worked on yesterday, but I ended up playing on twitter, plurk, and ping.fm instead. (And guess what I am doing now... ha!) I didn't do any cocoa.

Yesterday, Hank helped me pick out 9 of my 17 projects that really deserve my focus. The others can wait till the current ones are done. What got me thinking about this was a Zen Habits article that suggested having one goal at a time. (One sounds crazy to me! But it got me thinking). Seven is a good number as that is the number of days in the week and so it makes using the Elementary Planner much easier. But I can handle nine... I think. But it still seems like a lot. In case your wondering, my seven projects are:

1. Marion's Ledge Business Plan
2. A website for a friend.
3. A cocoa app I am programming
4. A website redesign for Marion's Ledge
5. A novel that I am writing
6. An e-book I am writing
7. My Grandfather's book
8. My Productivity Blog http://ping.fm/QEbL7
9. One other small project.

Yeah, it's a lot. But I really don't know what to cut down on. 7 and 9 will be over shortly as I am almost done with them.

In other news, I just bought an alphasmart Neo. It is basically just a keyboard with a screen that lets you write .txt files. It will be awesomely distraction free, which is something that I really need as I get distracted super easily. :-) I just checked the tracking and it just left Illinois and is headed to Houston. It's suppose to be here by Thursday! ::excited::

Wow, I haven't blogged in a while and I forgot how much I like doing this. I have been keeping a paper journal in my planner which is really good at getting me to look at my planner, and I will continue that, but I may blog more again. I like blogging.

As for the rest of my life. School is starting again at the end of August and it will be my last year. I am really having trouble deciding what to take. I ma currently signed up for like 18 hours, which is way too much. I'll prolly drop photography. That will leave me with:

1. A computer class
2. An archi class
3. A Hindi class
4. A ling class.

That's 15 hours, which is prolly still too much. But I don't want to drop any of that. :-( I need the ling class to graduate. (I have a reli class to take in the spring). And I really want to pursue computers. Archi is important bc I want to see if I like archi. I've been really enjoying my archi classes but this will be my first design studio. I have entertained the idea of going to grad school in archi... but I'd take a break first and earn enough money to do that.

That leaves me with dropping Hindi, but that is also something I really like as I want to travel to India some point after I graduate. I think it would be a life changing trip and I'd really like to know some of the language (although I've heard that most of the people there also speak English, so maybe it's not as big of a concern as I'm imagining).

So if I drop anything it's prolly gonna be Hindi. That would leave me with enough time for my other projects as well as I don't want those to stop when I graduate.

I really can't believe it's already July!! Time is flying by and I want to accomplish so much and I have not enough time to do it. I've decided that my goal before I graduate is to find a way to make $2000 a month in residual income before I graduate so I will not need to get a job upon graduation. I think that sounds swell. I'll work on lifestyle design Tim Ferris style. Looking forward to it!

Ok, that prolly enough for tonight. I am going to do two Hindi script excersizes before bed and then I'm crashing. I have to work tomorrow so I got to actually get up before noon tomorrow (got to be there by noon). night y'all!

"Enlightenment is found at the end of the toad of Christianity."

:-D

Please do this. I am curious what others think.

Girl Stuff:


Anywho, I earned $42 yesterday. $3 from tips at  Taft, $15 from doing work for my cousin, $20 from swing dancing at a singles event, and I found $4 on the ground (ok, I didn't earn that one).
I am just raking in the money. ;-)

I signed up for Bank of America's keep the change. So far in the past 3 days I have saved $2.11. :-D

I am posting this from a new service called imified that works through an instant messager system. I am using Gtalk. I am not really sure why I am posting on LJ. I haven't in a while and I wanted to say Hi. So Hi!!!

I have too many classes! Well, too many classes + extracurriculars. AHH!!!

well, I am still alive. This is always a good thing. Wow. when did LJ switch to a Blogger style posting interface?

Life has been funny lately. No, really. In some bizarre non-humerous sort of way. Although, even I am not sure what that means. I just keep chuggling along, smiling at the sky. but inevitably splashing through the puddles at the same time. Life is funny like that.

I am acting. Motion. That is what you need to keep moving. I wish I could take that time and just step back. Pause life for a moment. Re-wind it a little to last semester and then put the world on loop.

But I can't, so I keep moving, back on the never ending search for the business-man's enlightment. Saying lots. huh? I caught a glemce of it. A sliver of light that streaked by me last semester. Why didn't I hang on to it?

Thought I'd give a little update. I don't write on here much since getting blogger, but why not. I have been home for a week. I went home a bit early and finished up my last paper from Austin. It is cool to be home. But I actually think I am having Houston withdraw. I missed the El Orbits last show. :-(

In the time that I have been here, I have written a 14 page paper, read 2 books on web design, a book on web standard, spend a day shopping, started to read a book on blackjack (working on it) and then wrote an unknown number of pages in my private journal. My goal is to write 200. I am not even close. I'd guesstimate about 30. If that.

My step-dad has a cold, so he is sleeping in my room and i am sleeping the the $4000 bed of comfort that is my parents bed. It is one of those memory foam ones. I have been in sleeping heaven the last scouple of days.

I need to write more. And wrap presents for my parents. My birthday is in 3 days and I turn 21. At that time, I will be in Vegas!!! :-) Since I am not much of a gambler, I don't expect to win anything. But it will be fun anyway. And if I run low on money, you will find me at the roulette table better on evens and odds. No chance to win, and a very small chance to lose. :-/ Ok, I am no fun. But I am learning to play blackjack.

I currently have the song "The End" by the Beatles off of Abbey Road stuck in my head. It was in happy feet, which is a really good movie. I got to see it on the IMAX, very cool.

My parents and I watched the AKC dog show last night on TV. I like animal shows. I wonder when a cat show is coming to Houston.

By the end of this break, I am going to create me a website.
{ling-dorkiness} That is a cool sentence. Yesterday, I said, "I am eating me grits." I like how we put the me in there. I could very well say "I am eating grits" but I don't. You know, I really should take that structure of English class. I like this type of stuff. {/ling-dorkiness}
I am also going to update all of my profiles online... like facebook, and zaadz.

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!!! tomorrow morning we will all have new stuff!! :-)

By Jan 1, my life will be straightened out. yes it will. :-) That is my goal. And if it is not, I always have the week at dad's to finish. I am looking forward to that. Very forward. My house will be picked up. (Cleaning the house is a new years resolution and part of another plan). My online self will be cleaned up and organized and filled in. (my profiles are out of date and lacking). My work will be organised and planed out. I will be caught up. My mind will be empty. Swell.

In other news, wtf??? LJ has messages now? LJ is so trying to be web 2.0. I think that it should just stay a blog site.

I am almost done. 1 final, 2 papers. I didn't do much today, which isn't good, but I will be doing stuff tomorrow. I need to go to the library for some stuff. Then I will be able to finish the acco analysis. I have a study abroud appt tomorrow. w00t. I hope that I can find some good stuff. And there is a party tomorrow night, and then after that, I am going to the movies. :-) not sure what I will see. Probably Happy Feet again. It was good (although not as good as Cars).

Oh, this is random, but I asked for a stuffed Luigi (the little italian car) for christmas. I am going to take him to Europe with me and get pictures of stuff with him in it. I have heard of people doing this with their hat or something. :-)

I need to start compiling my iteneratry for Europe. This involves interveiwing people about thier experiences in Europe. Have you been to Europe and stayed in a Hostel?

I am testing out this lj chat thingy. It works with iChat. wow. I haven't been on Aim in ages. :-)

one more thing, Is any one on that new LJ IM service? It works with gmail chat, so if you are, add me:
lovefaithswing@gmail.com

I miss LJ and the wonder rambles that I used to do here. I like writing about nothing. My new blog is more serious. I need to get people there to read it. Here, I know you'll read it, so I can say whatever nonsense I want. :-P

Abracadabra, Gallopygoo.

(Ignore that, I am hyper a tad)

I did 4 hours of work today STRAIGHT. that is, 4 hours IN A ROW. All Accounting. Can anyone say fried brain? And I have 2 more problems to do. I am debating whether I want to do them or write the beginning of the next blog entry for Marion's Ledge. I will probably just write the entry. I don't feel like more numbers. (now watch as I do accounting because I don't feel like writing)

There is a circle of wood in the trash below my feet. What is the trash doing below my feet? I am stealing the circle. And speaking of trash. I have found 2 hub caps this week, a journal of clothes and a book. I love picking up trash. It is interesting. I know, odd habit.

I get to go see a movie tonight. W00tness.

I am wearing 2 layers of pants. One of which are jazz pants. I feel like I have on long silk underwear. Quite nice.

ok, I better go to bed</a> no, Hailey, it is not bed time (wrote that out of habit).
Try again, I better get back to work.

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Marion's Ledge just got a blog!!!

Check it out

The Marion's Ledge Blog

What I need done by next monday in order to catch up:

1. Chap 11 PS 1
2. Chap 11 PS 2
3. Chap 12 PS 1
4. Chap 12 PS 2
5. Finish Reading Chap 12
6. Read all of the other articles I am behind on.
7. Re-read the Interp article and email it I have questions.
8. Go over all of the examples again.
9. Do some of the sample problems and email in the answers.
10. Final Studying before test.
11. Take Test
12. Finish the Price comparisons and email that in.
13. Read Brief History of Everything (a 1/3 of the way done!)
14. Buy the Partridge book.

What I need to do to not get more behind:

1. Read Chapter 5
2. Chap 5 PS 1
3. Read Chapter 13
4. Read Chapter 4
5. HW 11
6. Graded HW 9
7. Read 8.6-7

That is my Thanksgiving break.

the end is near:

Ling
I have 2 more problem sets and then a final exam.
Logic
2 more tests. One of which is to be done ASAP, the other done like 2 weeks after thanksgiving.
Accounting
The Final Test and the paper. As well as a bunch of problem sets (7).
Leadership Rice
Finish the Coffeehouse project and maybe put a powerpoint together for our presentations.
Reli
I have two more books to read. I better get reading. Plus a paper.

In conclusion:
Problem Sets: 9 official ones plus some ungraded logic ones.
Papers: 2
Exams: 4
Projects: 1

Now I just have to get feeling better and start wanting to work again.

Just so you know... I set the tenitive date for that photoshoot for Oct 7th around noon or so. This is really important to me so the next step is emailed people. Let me know if you want to join me. It should be a lot of fun as for we will be driving around to various places taking pictures. And you can bring your camera and take pictures too!! :-)