Ok, so I’ve got somewhat a sense of accomplishment. LOL. Yea right. So I’ve lied. Today was my only day off and I did jack. Literally. Well I actually went to school, came home and did a little more nothing in the hottub which was nice. Cleaned up and went out. We went to eat at Fudruckers(sp?) which was super SHIBBY. I liked it quite a bit. The burgers were huge(and good I might add) and on top of that it was an excellent change from the normal. I liked it, oh yea, I had a pretty cool desert. Fudge, brownie with cream cheese!
Can life can any better than that? I submit that under it CANNOT!
Anywho ..
Couple changes you’ve probably seen. One is the lack of graphics and the over abundance of text. That would be my journal in it’s finest ladies and gentleman. Pure and uncut, lol .. ok so it’s cut up a little bit. In fact I noticed there is about a 6 month gap where there was no entries. My journal would be entirely huge and to long and drawn out had I included them in. That was 6 months of life that I can live without. I read them all today. I can’t beileve how I felt throughout that time of my life. It was almost pathetic but I am glad I documented it, I can at least look back and laugh at how stupid and childish I was. I think that my journal and it’s content is what has made me what I am today. No, in fact I know it has. It’s my life on a daily basis. I’m so incredibly happy I’ve kept one over the course of the last two years. I just know how to describe it. Like a kid in a candy shop I am. I think I’m so glad that I’ve kept it because my latest breakup was quite literally a piece of cake. I’ve taken all of life’s accounts into consideration and of course I’ve been hurt, but never down. Not in the depths I was before, not ever. Not once. Which is a SHIBBY feeling in itself.
I’ve since related back to my days of depression. Wether it be a year ago or even a few years ago back during my Cancer periods. I reflected actually quite a bit today. I think that is why it was so easy for me to spend a good 2 hours coding the new journal layout, how it’s arranged, it’s new database and functionality. It was easy. I just free-flowed and the next thing I knew I have created my own masterpiece. Well, I think it is. But I thought, I thought and thought some more. People I’ve met, people that I havn’t talked to in forever. People from highschool, influencial people in my life. I got a picture from one the other day. So incredibly attractive, even to this day, but only physically, nothing else is left at least in my eyes. I’ve chatted with people on ICQ today that I havn’t in quite a while. I’m just too busy. I really am. I work way to much and I also have alot of other things that I like to do other then make website. I like to play video games(however I havn’t in a while) and I like to sit and relax in the POOL. Which is where most of my spare time is spent I realised today. Just sitting there thinking. I like to think. I suppose it relaxes me. Makes me realise how good things are for me right now. Work, work is still bleh, but I’ll get by. No biggie. It pays the bills and I realise it’s only until something better comes up, I think that makes my day that much better knowing I won’t be there forever. Personal life is perfectly SHIBBY as well. I don’t get nausious(sp?) when I see couples and such in public. Instead I just gawk at the pretty ladies like the other guys. On top of that school, WOW, what can I say about school.
I’m at a point in my life where I’m just absorbing so much knowledge and it’s a good feeling. Just to listen. Listen and listen more to what others have to say. Only recently have I grown up, opened up my ears and listened to other’s people suggestions and ideas. That was a sign of ignorance on my part. Just because new ideas and new philosophies are a sign of competence and not ignorance. I suppose I would achieve far greater respect in this world if I could learn how to spell. However that’s the great thing about my journal, I’m doing it for me … however I realise other people actually read this from time to time.
Anywho .. back to school. Yes, I have a point, or at least an intresting story I’d like to share. I’ve got 4 classes. Advanced Trig with a professor who’s had numerous government contract jobs, the class is Trig and History all wrapped into one. Not because it is, but he has so many intresting stories to share! Missles, contracts etc .. he’s old, but very very smart and respectable. However funny, everytime he’s out smoking for some reason all of the attractive ladies are attracted to him. Hehe, that in my eyes is funny. The other class I have is Algorithim design and analysis. That will be a fun class. I already know it. The first day we did numerous tests on the bubble sort and quick sort. We found the bubble sort was exponential and that the quick sort was logN, which was pretty intresting. My instructor in my eyes was always arrogant and cocky however actually having him for a teacher for the first time in 2 years, he’s a super nice guy and very intresting. Very smart. Incredibly smart.
My third class is somewhat of a bummer however it too will be intresting. It’s Project Managment. It’s like a 350 course or something like that. The teacher is somewhat of a weirdo. He talked about how he met his wife online 2 years ago, of course got married and 2 years later they have 2 kids with one on the way. Now my jaw dropped. If you do the math. Wow. Yea .. that’s what I said as well. But he is incredibly smart, too smart for his own good. I sometimes think that he likes to talk to hear himself talk and not for any other reason. Which is good, he just rambles, almost as I do here sometimes, ok ok .. most of the time.
My last class I have I thought was going to be horrendous. I heard such horrible things about this guy, and on the flip side such incredible things about this guy. I was so scared, nervous is the word more like it. I had no idea what to expect. The class is Introduction to Buisness. The professor teaches at 2 major Universities in the area ontop of the one I’m at right now, he’s got 2 masters in buisness and countless bachelors. It’s pretty intimidating. He does not accept late papers, any days you miss from class, no more then four, any more than that and you are immiedatly dropped, no matter on score, knowledge or anything. Just poof. Dropped. He has 3 tests, and only 3 tests. Miss a day and you miss the test. No notes books etc … Sounds like a rough class right? NO way. Not at all … and that’s not sarcasim, that’s me being 100% serious.
I don’t know how to describe this guy. Just thinking about what he had to say today, so fasinating and real and incredibly true. Something that can be used daily. I respect this man. He says about 80% of his students absolutly love him and the other junk hate him just because of his rules. It’s simple though. We are grown ups and in buisness we need to act like grown ups. Simple concepts that any responsible person can appreciate. If you are going to be gone from class, he states that even if it’s for personal reasons wether you just don’t want to come to class or whatever, as long as it’s not abused he would count you in the class only as long as you contact him before hand. His tests, are no notes, however he will email the tests to us before hand about a week in advance so we can study.
Ok so let me get to the point I was trying to make, or at least the story. He explained to us how he reads. He takes his two fingers into a "V" and drags it down the middle of the paper, he states that once the brain is trained, and practiced of course, that the brain will pick out key words and incoorperate them into what it needs to know. It makes for far less reading and of course the main topics are covered. Of course there is a little more to it but simply put that’s what he said. Also … he said that there are only 3 phases to anything that would be a project. Or anything for that matter. BORN, GROW, DIE. Now, those words can be subsituted for anything but those are the 3 main concepts. As humans we are born, we grow then we die. With a story or movie, it’s got an intro, body and closing. With a problem you have the problem itself, the analysis of it an the resolution. He went on and on about things that could be used in life that I will definetly use. I will post more later but due to time contstraints etc .. I’ll post it later on in a more organized fashion.
Anywho …
The thing he told me that stuck out to me the most was "PERSONAL STRUCTURE" also which can be used for buisness. He talked about goals, motives and problem resolutions. He stated that it needed to be precise. Yearly, broken down in to months, down into days etc .. He stated that he wakes up at 4 in the morning to check his portfolio. Goes back to sleep. Wakes up, eats, showers, reads the newspaper, comes to work at my college, afterwards teaches at the University of Colorado, and that’s just on the weekdays! On saturday he works for IBM and StorageTeck(two incredibly huge companies) and the on Sunday he has his own buisness. Why does he push himself to the ground like he does? He asked us this and of course our reply was "WHY!??!?!?". It was classic. He simply turned around to his dry-erase board, wrote something down and had drawn a picture. The picture was of a huge umbrella with a stick figure laying down somewhat close to it on a reclining beach chair next to the ocean. He stated the umbrella wasn’t for him but for his Margeretia(sp?) to keep cool. He then drew his Margeretia and a straw to his mouth and said because he was to lazy to get up and get refils. HEHE. But the thing that caught me and everybody for that matter was what he wrote. "You will not see me in 5-7 years". We kind of just sat there and pondered and it finally hit us. He’s doing it for an ultimate goal. Sacrificing short term oppurtunities for long term opportunities. He circled "ME" and kind of pointed it towards the stick figure. It was a clear cut message. He stated everymorning when he shaved he would have look at his mirror in a special way because he had a picture of somebody laying down on the beach. As a constant reminder of his goals. So that way he can question himself daily. Making sure he is pushing himself daily to achieve those goals.
I don’t know. It was a very powerful message to me. Just everything he stated was like WOW. Definetly something I can use in my life. An excellent idea. I’m thinking of having a picture of My corvette on my computer. So I can sit down and look at it or even in my wallet. Heck, I may special order a debit card with a corvette on it so that way I can see it every time I purchase something LAME and say "HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING MR SPOKOLI!".
So today was a good day. What more can I say? Nothing really … I can only hope you had as good of a day as I did.
Oh yea, AMY! CONGRATULATIONS on your new job. I hear, you should email me sometime. I’d love to hear from you if you get this .. or if you’ve even read this far!
take care all,
kc
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