The Pnebleu Blog

This semester is going very quickly.  I graduate in May.  I’m not ready for this, but at the same time I can’t wait.  The career fair was very depressing today.  Not much opportunity at this very moment.  I just keep relying on God to provide for me, it’s all I can do.  This semester I have had to most reading of all of my college years.  I’m just barely keeping up.  I have a few more tests in the next two weeks.  If all goes well this semester, I should graduate Summa Cum Laude; that will be exciting!

Life is begin to get crazy. I’ve been going to AITP (Association of Technology Professionals) meetings from 7PM to 10PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays. School is kicking into gear, finally. Projects, homework, papers, and exams are becoming due. It has been quite busy at work lately. Only a two part time techs are there at the same time each day, so each of our workloads are very high.

Hurricane Ike causes a lot of damage to the Houston area, but it has also affected Central Texas. All of Robertson County is out of power, except for Navasota Valley Electric Co-op, so my parents are one of the few who still have power. The longest estimate for power to be out is 4 weeks, but it could be fixed within a few days. There was a problem with Entergy in Conroe. Ike has disrupted my Netflix mailings, but I’m not upset about it. There’s nothing more that Netflix can do (rerouting my movies to Dallas instead of Houston), and I have used the time to work on school and resume preparation instead of watching a movie.

As I am waiting for my loan application to come in the mail, my laptop has become more and more of a problem. So, fortunately, my parents agreed to temporarily cover the cost of my new PC purchase. As soon as the loan comes in I will write them a big check. I purchased a Dell XPS 630 with the Intel quad-core Q9300 processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB RAID-1 HDD configuration, ATI HD 3870 graphics card, Vista Ultimate, and a 22-in LCD monitor. It’s estimated delivery date is from 9/29 to 10/1. Aaahh! I’m going to have to work on my patience with this purchase.

I ordered my Aggie ring a few weeks ago. I will arrive on November 14th! I’m excited about that, another test of my patience. Well, I’m off to talk to my adviser to see how my next semester looks.

Well, I’m not dead, but I am burnt out.  I just have 6 days of class: two speeches, two exams, and two essays left.  I just wanted to updated the blog with a new post.  I updated to Wordpress 2.6, we’ll see what’s new.

So, this is the second week of English and Speech at Blinn.  I only have until August 4th, then the semester is over!  These two classes are probably the hardest one’s I’ve ever taken.  Not just because they are writing intensive, but also because they are condensed into one month, I am working 20 hours/week, and Blinn has challenging classes to keep their standards up.  I have a total of 5 major speeches to give and 4 major essays to write within the month.  But along with those assignments I have also had a lot of reading, smaller writing assignments, weekly quizzes in English, and other speaking activities in Speech.  Each class has a midterm and a final.  I’m not really sure why they are trying to fit every single assignment from the full semesters into the one month summer semesters, but it hasn’t been much fun so far.

Tomorrow, I will present my first major speech.  It is about how my jobs have influenced my dream to become big in the corporate world.  Working where I have, I now want to own a small company, not work in a large corporation.  Well, I had better practice the speech again.  Each one has to be 7-10 minutes in length, yikes!

Hopefully, you will hear from me again, if you don’t you know what killed me: summer school at Blinn.

On Monday, I will be starting summer school at Blinn.  I’m taking English Composition (freshman English that I skipped for 3 years) and Intro to Speech.  I will buy the books on Monday after class is over.  My first class starts at 9:35 AM and the second class ends at 1:35 PM.  I’ll grab lunch then go to work from 3 to 7 PM.  I have the feeling that I’m going to be really busy writing papers and speeches; we’ll see.

Tonight, I’m planning to go see Hancock with a friend, but if I don’t get a call soon, I’m going to go see it on my own at 9:45 PM.  Lately I’ve been watching a lot of movies, either online, via Netflix, or in the theaters.  I’m trying to work my way through a list of movies I’ve wanted to see before school gets started and I don’t have time.  (The previous is an example of a poorly structured, mostly likely, run-on sentence.)

A lot of things are happening for me right now and in the near future.  Last Saturday, I moved into my new apartment.  I’m really excited about it.  I had to rearrange my room quite a bit to make everything fit, but I’m happy with how things are.

On Monday, my family and I are flying to Seattle until the 17th of June.  I will definitely be posting stuff from Washington.  On July 7th, school will be starting at Blinn.  I’m taking Freshman Composition and Speech; two classes that I’ve just been putting off.  Well, I have to get up early tomorrow, so goodnight!

Spring break is overrated. I’m not saying I don’t appreciate the reprieve from school for a week, but it has become this massive conception. The two words bring to mind college students partying in Mexico or skiing in Colorado. Well, not for me; I worked from 10AM to 7PM Tuesday through Friday. I don’t remember very many spring breaks that I actually took a vacation. Oh well, it let me work 36 hours this week; 15 more than normal.

As this week has come to a close, I’ve been thinking more about what I’m going to do after I graduate next year. I really don’t know. I think I’d really like to do technology consulting for small to medium businesses, but I don’t want to travel much. I just heard on a podcast about the digital information archival field; it has really piqued my interest, I’m going to have to do some research on it. So, I’m stressing about what I’m going to do in the future. Everyone keeps telling me that I need to get ready, the real world is about to be here. Well, I’d like to tell everyone, the real world is already here. I’m already in the real world. I never was anywhere but in the real world. If juggling college, work, and daily chores isn’t in the real world, I don’t know what is.