Sunday, February 24, 2013
2/24/2013
I had an uneventful journey back to Philadelphia on the Crescent 20 train. Waking up this morning was pretty painful though. Taco Bell for lunch, Jimmy John's for dinner, and the old routine starts up once again.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
2/23/2013
I woke up at 6AM today, my dad's alarm blaring in my ear from the pocket of a pair of pants he had left next to the futon in the computer room. I groped around blearily in a vain attempt to silence the angry device only to turn up empty handed. After a quick moment to collect my thoughts, I finally mustered enough motor coordination to grab the phone from its cozy den and silence it. Somewhere in the back of my brain I realized I should probably walk upstairs and wake my dad up, given that his alarm clock had been set for a reason, and it was probably not just to annoy me early in the morning. I gripped the phone firmly in my hand and resolved to climb out of bed after 10 seconds. Twenty minutes later, my dad woke me up, phone still clenched between my fingers.
The rest of the day proceeded smoothly (final wake-up time: 11:30AM) with much conversing between my mom, my cousin, and myself. We drove downtown to send my cousin to an SAT tutoring session, and I had a nice cup of coffee with my mom at the Corner Cup, one of so many slightly hipster coffee houses that littered the UVa campus.
The rest of the evening was spent engaged in dinner, tennis with my cousin, and video games, a pattern oft repeated whenever I return home.
I'll be leaving tomorrow morning. I guess you really never can go back.
Friday, February 22, 2013
2/22/2013
I spent most the day working on a project that my boss assigned to me two days ago. Without going into confidential territory, the main thrust of the application's purpose is to help diagnose network latency and content delivery issues along a large corporate network.
Unfortunately this means I didn't spend quite as much time as I wanted to talking with my parents, but somehow I feel just being in the same house gives them a measure of satisfaction.
I had home-made Chinese hotpot tonight. God, I miss home cooking.
Unfortunately this means I didn't spend quite as much time as I wanted to talking with my parents, but somehow I feel just being in the same house gives them a measure of satisfaction.
I had home-made Chinese hotpot tonight. God, I miss home cooking.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Day 1
Hello, and welcome to my new blog. This space will serve as a journal for my day to day activities and hopefully have a smattering of interesting anecdotes as time progresses.
I'm not actually expecting anybody to read this (except for one or two people who will be actively monitoring my posts). Now the natural question to ask in that case is why I wouldn't just make a private document in Google Docs or Word. The reasons are twofold: this format makes it much easier to share with the few people who I do want to read it, and I do want to make what I write available to the general Internet in hopes that it might prove useful to somebody in the future.
With that said, let's talk about my day.
I woke up around 10:30AM cold and with a dry mouth. My room lights were still on from the night before (a bad habit I need to break). I skipped breakfast and lunch partly due to laziness and partly due to not having any food in the refrigerator, so in retrospect it was completely due to laziness on my part.
After brushing my teeth and taking care of my personal hygiene, I sat down at my computer (this was roughly 11:30AM). One of my friends immediately called me on Skype and invited me to play Left 4 Dead 2 with him and some people I didn't know. Unfortunately I didn't have this game installed so I started the download and listened to their conversation while I played XCOM: Enemy Unknown. This was a bad move.
Six hours later, I finally stopped playing XCOM. I hadn't counted on the game being so addictive. I made my way downstairs and cooked a meager dinner comprised of rice and scrambled eggs doused in hot sauce. Supplementing the main course were two clementines, a handful of cashews, and two multivitamins.
After dinner, at about 8:30PM, I began playing XCOM again, and this lasted until 10:00PM. I then played Borderlands 2 until 11:30PM with a friend. Tomorrow will be the first real day of work since the weekend before Christmas so I'm not terribly excited by that prospect. So it goes.
And during the course of writing this entry, I realized I spent most of my waking hours playing video games. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But we can talk about that another time.
I'm not actually expecting anybody to read this (except for one or two people who will be actively monitoring my posts). Now the natural question to ask in that case is why I wouldn't just make a private document in Google Docs or Word. The reasons are twofold: this format makes it much easier to share with the few people who I do want to read it, and I do want to make what I write available to the general Internet in hopes that it might prove useful to somebody in the future.
With that said, let's talk about my day.
I woke up around 10:30AM cold and with a dry mouth. My room lights were still on from the night before (a bad habit I need to break). I skipped breakfast and lunch partly due to laziness and partly due to not having any food in the refrigerator, so in retrospect it was completely due to laziness on my part.
After brushing my teeth and taking care of my personal hygiene, I sat down at my computer (this was roughly 11:30AM). One of my friends immediately called me on Skype and invited me to play Left 4 Dead 2 with him and some people I didn't know. Unfortunately I didn't have this game installed so I started the download and listened to their conversation while I played XCOM: Enemy Unknown. This was a bad move.
Six hours later, I finally stopped playing XCOM. I hadn't counted on the game being so addictive. I made my way downstairs and cooked a meager dinner comprised of rice and scrambled eggs doused in hot sauce. Supplementing the main course were two clementines, a handful of cashews, and two multivitamins.
After dinner, at about 8:30PM, I began playing XCOM again, and this lasted until 10:00PM. I then played Borderlands 2 until 11:30PM with a friend. Tomorrow will be the first real day of work since the weekend before Christmas so I'm not terribly excited by that prospect. So it goes.
And during the course of writing this entry, I realized I spent most of my waking hours playing video games. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But we can talk about that another time.
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