grades yo

despite this being the most grueling semester yet (and i didn't think anything could top spring 07), i got some sweet grades. i did 16 credit hours, 13 hours/week at the museum interning, and 20 hours minimum at the zoo (usually 30) and spent the rest of my time at school in the labs. since this is my blog im going to brag. eat it suckas.

Client-side Web Programming : B- (extremely difficult labs, this class blew. i got behind in feb and effed it up a bit)
Intro to Yoga - A-
Internship - A
Intermediate Sound - A- !!! (This was the most honestly difficult class I've had so far and it took the most effort.)
Software Project Management - A+ (Didn't know they gave A+'s in college. It makes my plain ol' A's look shabby, but that's ok.)
Lighting and Field Production - A-

My major GPA still holds close to a 3.9, my semester is around 3.6, and my cumulative is around 3.4 or 3.5. And since my GPA doesn't matter to any employers, I don't really care.

No celebrations though since Visual Basic (osigwjmvgklemgjvwnbvolnwv) and Intro to Flash start tomorrow, and it'll be 7 weeks of regular semester work shoved in my brain and stirred around.

in other news, i voted for obama in the indiana democratic primary today. we went to the obama rally last night. it was sweet.


EDIT: i got better grades than i thought. Yoga is an A and Client-side is a B+! omfgwut. So all A's and one stinkin B+. WOOP WOOOOOP!

wedding dresses

yesterday me and breanne went wedding dress shopping for the first time. it was pretty weird. in david's bridal all they play is wedding music. and when you are trying stuff on, you are on a little stage with pedestals, like dolls. wedding dresses are uncomfortable and heavy. but they are so pwetty. i actually think i found the one i want. here are the ones i tried on:









my favorite is the last one. it's pretty much exactly what i had in mine when i started looking at dresses online - no beads or sparkly things - all the design aspects are built into how the fabric stretches and is cut. i wasn't crazy about the flower but i kind of like it now. however, i'm going to ask my mom if there's any old brooches or clips i could replace it with that belonged to her mom or someone in our family. i think it would look very classic and antique with something like that there. this picture has the dress in ivory but i would likely order it in white. i also like it because it has a sweep train, which is a little bit of fabric on the back - nothing to bustle. and it's flattering. ha.

i tried on two other dresses that were full of fail that you can see in the flickr recent pictures on nathanandkylee.com. i do not look good in strapless.

so yea im pretty sure i want to get that dress. it's like $349. eh.

stimulate this (that's what she said)

the economic stimulus package thing is such crap. mainly because i don't get anything and neither do my parents.

my parents claim me as a dependent so i can stay on their insurance and they pay for a lot of crap. so they claimed me on their taxes this year.

people will be getting $300 per dependent child. any child who was claimed does not get the payment themselves.

however, you have to be under the age of 17.

basically if you're in college and still claimed by your parents (as a majority of college students are), you get nothing and your parents get nothing. you could even be in high school and not get anything.

i'm a full time college student and i earned about $14,000 last year which translates to like a billion tax dollars paid, but noooo. i don't get my freebie borrowed money (that i will surely be paying back in my lifetime).

eff.

ufo in kokomo?

some weird stuff went down in kokomo tonight. some weird weird stuff. basically around 10:45, there were lights and fire in the sky, and a loud boom. cameron freaked out and alerted me to this, and of course we began listening to the kokomo police scanner. it began going insane and nobody knew what was going on. people were saying it must have been an airplane crash. they were searching everywhere for it. they were all over the place, nobody knew where to start looking. the faa says all planes are accounted for, and the military bases say there are no crafts in the area. they went to western to meet and start a search, then apparently messed up and were to be at northwestern. then there was a fire reported, it was on the news, someone called and said they smelled a gas leak, alarms went off at the business surrounding the area. then they said it was a meteorological event and called everything off.

now...what? here is the timeline as i understand it:

10:45 - fireball in the sky splits into 4 perfectly lined up blobs, along with a loud boom that was intensely felt through all of the kokomo, not just one specific area. cameron craps his pants. katee is freaked out because she just got home from work and saw the fireballs and thinks it was a ufo.
10:50 - no idea where to look still since witnesses are calling from everywhere. mention of calling in nationl guard. people reporting debris and cloud of smoke.
10:53 - mention of ground troops
10:56 - mention of switching to emergency (not broadcast) channels for some personnel (so they can talk freely and not be heard on the scanner)
11:10 - mention on news via tv and internet
11:30 - start to call it meteorological event (one officer says he doesn't believe it is one since it was too intense) same thing happened in cass county two days earlier.
11:45 - search is called off

if i were a sci-fi conspiracy theorist, i would say it's interesting that they were speaking freely until they were asked to move to the emergency channel, and that they stopped talking about military as soon as that occurred. and then they couldn't find anything and gave up relatively quickly. if i were into that sort of thing, i would say kokomo is the roswell of our time.

but what's likely the truth? somebody (a pilot) mentioned seeing F-16s heading back to the base in Fort Wayne tonight. he said he figured they were shooting flares and one of them went super sonic, accounting for everything we saw. of course, the air force bases denied having crafts in the area but they always do. so that's what probably happened and somebody is getting yelled at for going super sonic over kokomo at night and causing a panic. but it doesn't explain the debris first reported, the cloud of smoke, or the fact an entire area was blocked off for a while. flares? smoke? not the same.

but if i were you, kokomo, i'd be watching out for super soldiers, the black oil, or some little green men. if i was in kokomo tonight, i would totally go on a wild goose chase.

its BLOG BLOG BLOG

so what's up with everyone and their mom in kokomo getting a blog all of the sudden? did something occur at an event that inspired everyone to blog? i always find it funny when this phenomenon happens because it dies out after a few weeks or months and then there are a bunch of dead blogs laying around (thank god the internet doesn't generate waste, our planet would be covered in sludge from all the dead websites). sometimes one or two blogs make it through to continue living but most of the time, rest in peace.

i've been blogging since before "blogging" was a word (oh, aren't i amazing?) in various venues on a regular to semi-regular basis. my first online journal was on deadjournal.com in 8th grade, i think. the continuous blogging picked up in 9th grade for sure. i've been on deadjournal, livejournal, xanga, blogger, myspace, facebook, blogspot, and in various places on my own. it's entirely possible to trace my online presence from place to place over the years (though it's getting harder with inactive accounts getting deleted all the time).

now i update a blogspot account, nathanandkylee.com, and sometimes myspace. they all reach different audiences, so i cross post. i think it's amusing how easy blogging and generally keeping everyone updated on your life is nowadays. when i was in hs, we all depended on aim away messages. now we have the ability to text our status to facebook or twitter in real time. blogs themselves are way more user-friendly than before - it's so easy to have an amazingly awesome layout with no knowledge of web at all.

do you think that if i ever got famous, people would find my old blogs from when i was 15 and publish them and everyone would pick apart my words and somehow declare me a psycho?

i forgot my point, but welcome to the blahg world, whoever. i hope you survive.

interviews suck

So......we all hate this project. Not the final product I mean (my group hasn't even seen it yet), but this assignment. We all hate interviewing. It's the most boring thing imaginable. I wasn't able to be present at either of the interviewing shoots since my life is so busy right now, so I took on the task of editing. I kind of took a VH-1 sort of style to this video to make it bearable. Of course I only spent a couple hours on it (mostly looking for my camera cord to capture with) so I didn't emulate that style to the best of my ability, but it's not bad. I think the pacing is ok - slows down a bit in a couple spots because I was PMSing and didn't care - and I'm wondering how it'll be received in class. The whole purpose behind the project was the lighting and field production techniques behind these types of interviews and I think our shots were good.

Here it is on youtube. Let me know what you think. PS I think it's kind of on crack.

22 days...

...til the end of the semester, and here are my due dates for the rest of the semester.

4/9
Interview video

4/12
Software Peer Review Lab
Gettin' Testy Lab

4/18
Quiz 12 - Cookies
Cookie Lab
Software Peer Review Lab
Gettin' Testy Lab

4/23
Yoga Center Visit 2

4/24
Chorus Powerpoint
Give That Back Lab

4/25
341 Final Project
Goin Goin Gone Lab

4/28
505 Evaluation/TY Letter/Postings
Green screen video

4/29
341 Final Exam

5/1
Foley Project


Optional Due by 4/28
UML Modeling Quiz
Coding Standards Quiz
Software Peer Review Quiz
Software Testing Quiz
Software Release Quiz
Software Maintenance Quiz
Project Closeout Quiz


Even though I'm taking summer classes, I can't wait for this to be over.