I still love you, LPP
June 14, 2009 :: Sunday
My Dear Blog, Yeah, hi. As you may or may not have noticed, I haven't updated in, well, a long time. We're gonna go ahead and blame that on a combination of the fact that you were loaded with viruses for a few months there and the fact that you need a new layout. My bad. Anyway. I just wanted to stop by and tell you I'm still alive and having the favorite summer anyone could have. Classes keep me happily busy, and my friends are just amazing. So get on the lookout for a makeover. I seriously owe. Love, Amanda
Posted by Amanda at 10:40 am in life
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Foundations of Digital Games 2009
May 04, 2009 :: Monday
Let me just start out by saying that the conference was AWESOME. Omg, it was amazing to be constantly surrounded by intelligent discussions about games. On a cruise ship. It was my favorite thing, really.
Today marks the beginning of my last week of work for the semester. Most of the summer semester co-ops returned today, so we have about twice as many of us in the co-op room as usual. It's insane. That's like, fourteen of us. Quite distracting.
Tomorrow I'll have my end-of-semester performance review, Wednesday my boss will take me, Tyler, and Alex out for the end-of-semester co-op lunch at Maggiano's, Thursday Emily comes home (!!!), and Friday is just Friday. Saturday I'll be packing for Sunday, which is when I'll be moving back to campus. Classes start on Monday. I can't wait for a change of pace.
Posted by Amanda at 5:38 pm in IOS research
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Happy Easter!
April 12, 2009 :: Sunday
Posted by Amanda at 12:07 pm in holiday
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You're lovely
April 11, 2009 :: Saturday
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." It was mutual. And that's all I'm going to say. :)
I have like, infinitely more free time these days. I have been:
- Writing a petition to the CoC faculty
- Reading books (finished the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
- Freelancing
- Doing a billion philanthropy for AΩE (Tech Beautification Day, Relay for Life)
- Registering for summer classes
- Preparing for my cruise/conference
- Not blogging
Um...this is, like, the best Firefox theme I've ever seen. I saw one of my AΩE sisters with it last night. Authored by this artistic individual. THE SCROLL BARS ARE PIPES. What else could you want?
Also, my new favorite picture:
We climbed up Stone Mountain for our Spring sisterhood retreat. :)
Posted by Amanda at 5:02 pm in life
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Shouldn't I be having more free time right now?
March 17, 2009 :: Tuesday
Ah, yes. It's been awhile. I've been so busy. I have no idea where all my time went for the last week!
Last weekend was packed with fun and exciting things.
Friday night, David and I went on a date (!!) to an amazing sushi restaurant called Silk where we ate beer-battered sea bass, a bagel roll, and a ninja roll. SO GOOD. After that we zoomed over to the movie theater to watch Slumdog Millionaire, which was SO GOOD by the way. It was a really solid film. After the movie, we proceeded to Haagen-Dazs where I got mocha chip (or some such flavor) ice cream, David got triple chocolate (or some such flavor) + chocolate chip, and a cute three-year old was copying every move that I was making and then she would check to see if I was watching. SHE WAS SO CUTE.
Saturday we tried to go to Momocon, Georgia Tech's anime convention. By "tried" I mean we went there, the line was a billion people long to get to the shops, so we looked at some costumes then went to Popeye's. I had never been to Popeye's before, and I must say that it was tasty.
Sunday was the busiest day, in which I drove up to my dad's house to have lunch with my other family in celebration of his birthday. We hung out for about two hours at Jason's Deli, then I came back home to pick up my mom at which point we went shopping for a dress for my formal (!!). After that was finished, we came home and Mom prepared our traditional St. Patrick's Day dinner: corned beef + cabbage (and potatoes and carrots and bread). I am part Irish and part French. And some Scottish. Anyway. David and Spenser came over for that, so that was fun.
Then yesterday was Monday, and somehow my work day flew by, and I felt like I hadn't accomplished anything. Came home, worked on my client's site.
Now it's Tuesday, and this marks the first day of my "Nuclear Fundamentals for Non-Nuclear Personnel" three-day training course at work. I love being a (co-op) applications developer at INPO, but now that I'm a good four semesters into my co-op, I'm so excited to have the opportunity to learn more about the industry that I'm helping. And next week...I GET TO VISIT A PLANT - BELLEFONTE! I'm so excited. I can't wait.
On Thursday, David, Tyler, and I will be venturing on a road trip to DISNEY WORLD to visit EMILY, and I'm just so excited. I love road trips, and I love Emily, and I also love David and Tyler, and we can all just go ahead and assume that I love Disney World too.
Is it Thursday yet?
Also, and this is mostly for David, Yoshi has recently taken to sleeping like a person. I seriously did not help him do this:
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Posted by Amanda at 7:09 pm in life
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
March 08, 2009 :: Sunday
Well, there you have it. I wrote a list, so naturally I had make it a point to do something from the list such as read a book. I read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon.
Tyler gave this book to me for Christmas (don't ask me what I got him for Christmas because I'm still trying to figure out what it will be). He knew I would like it, and since he knew I'd like it, I knew I'd like it, and needless to say, I liked it. I really enjoyed it.
It's about a fifteen year-old autistic boy (told from his perspective) who is writing a book to solve the mystery of Who Killed Wellington, his neighbor's dog, with a garden fork. It's such a smart book. This kid just goes on this remarkable journey, and you get to hear exactly how and what he is thinking, and I was just in amazement the whole time I was reading this book. I kept wondering what it would be like to write a book like this...how you would have to adopt such a different way of thinking. Mark Haddon is extremely talented for writing something like this. I can't wait to read his book of poems, "The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems."
I plan to read two books per month.
I met up for coffee with Sarah, my AOE twin, today, and I enjoyed myself more than I expected to, only because the idea of sitting down with someone for the sole reason of chatting for an hour is not my favorite idea. But I'm working on that. She was really easy to talk to; we just sat and chit chatted for an hour. This was the first time we've actually talked with each other for more than five minutes straight.
While we were at Starbucks, we ran into our Grand-Big (Camila), and while we were driving back to the apartments, Sarah and I saw our Big Sister, Nicole, walking down the street, so naturally Sarah called Nicole on her cell phone while I was calling Nicole by screaming out my window, and we all rode happily ever after to North Ave apartments and Peters Parking Deck.
Posted by Amanda at 7:14 pm in books
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"Kittens, inspired by Kittens!"
March 03, 2009 :: Tuesday
Lol. Can everyone please watch this video? It makes me so happy, and I laugh harder every time I watch it.
Thanks to David and Spenser for making my day happy with this. (Even though I've been watching it every day since Saturday. Tehe.)
Posted by Amanda at 8:13 pm in random
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