{"id":534,"date":"2004-05-28T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2004\/05\/28\/hi\/"},"modified":"2004-05-28T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T14:03:00","slug":"hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s been a good few weeks since I&#8217;ve made a nice, juicy, meaty, bloody, undercooked post so I guess I will. Not a lot&#8217;s happened. Less than usual, even. I guess that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll talk about.<br \/>\nI truly look forward to this summer. School isn&#8217;t overly stressful or difficult at all &#8211; in fact, I somewhat enjoy my three classes (writing, music, Asian art history) &#8211; but I want a good excuse to get out of my dorm room and do more stuff. Socially and physically, this year&#8217;s been hard on me.<br \/>\nYeah, I still do enjoy FFXI a lot. The game doesn&#8217;t get any less fun since as I become stronger, more opportunities open up to me. But to try to maintain some balance, I&#8217;ve attempted composing some music or drawing some comic stuff, but to no avail. It&#8217;s just not coming out. No matter how much I enjoy FFXI, there are often times that I wish this phase would end, simply because I&#8217;m at a creative loss. I&#8217;m sure all my friends back at home will interpret this as &#8220;look, Jeffrey really wants to stop playing FFXI because it&#8217;s sapping his creativity,&#8221; but no, you&#8217;re wrong. All I&#8217;m saying is that I&#8217;ve noticed how little I&#8217;ve accomplished over this past quarter simply because I&#8217;ve been playing FFXI. That&#8217;s all.<br \/>\nUgh. Anyway, I&#8217;ve been sick this last week, and it hasn&#8217;t really made me feel any better about my overall situation. I&#8217;ve gone through headaches, never-ending snot rivers, eye-aches, insomnia, sore throats, the works. A few of my friends here have helped me out with NyQuil and stuff. Good times.<br \/>\nAnother thing I feel sorta crappy about is, yeah, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fanime.com\/\">Fanime<\/a>. It&#8217;s started today, and like I decided a few months ago, I&#8217;m not going. It&#8217;s mostly because <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.megatokyo.com\">Fred Gallagher<\/a> will be there, and the surrounding fandom will probably be too much to bear. There are Megatokyo fans here at Porter college, and they&#8217;re SCARY. I also don&#8217;t want to go since I have finals soon and it&#8217;s hard to find a ride up to the bay area&#8230; but both of those things aren&#8217;t really too important. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~midnight_tiger\/\">Ron<\/a> is going, anyway.<br \/>\nBut after all this nay-saying and being stupid about Fanime, I all of a sudden want to go, since everyone at home has finally decided to jump the bandwagon and hang out there. But I&#8217;ll be stuck here. Damn UCSC for not already being out&#8230; for serious. Oh well, I can get more progress in FFXI. \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\nHmm&#8230; what else is going on. I&#8217;m becoming increasingly more angry, vocal, and emotional about the happenings overseas in Iraq. There&#8217;s pending draft legislation, there is humiliation and torture being caused by U.S. troops (call me a simpleton for not expecting this sort of behavior), Israel continues to bomb the living hell out of Palestine for no good reason, etc. etc. etc. I&#8217;m just so glad I can vote. I say that if you don&#8217;t vote while eligible, you shouldn&#8217;t really be entitled to an opinion. Sure, like boycotting the electoral system is going to do anyone any good.<br \/>\nOh yeah, getting back to summer plans. I still don&#8217;t know if I have an internship at Sun Microsystems or not. After they laid off a giant chunk of their work force, my interview was all but called off&#8230; and then ever since then, there have been more and more rays of hope as to whether I&#8217;d get a position over the summer. The start of my supposed internship is only a few weeks away, and I still don&#8217;t know. I have no idea what I will do this summer if I don&#8217;t get this job. I seriously need a job. I have no money at all.<br \/>\nThe last full week of classes is over and I hope to go with my Porter friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zinn-x.com\">Jeff<\/a> to a comedy show at Kresge later tonight. I hope I have enough money in my wallet to go. Maybe I&#8217;ll borrow some&#8230; I don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\nI think that&#8217;s enough despair-drenched dronings for one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s been a good few weeks since I&#8217;ve made a nice, juicy, meaty, bloody, undercooked post so I guess I will. Not a lot&#8217;s happened. Less than usual, even. I guess that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll talk about. I truly look forward to this summer. School isn&#8217;t overly stressful or difficult at all &#8211; in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/hi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}