Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell

I had a dentist appointment today. Apparently I have six cavities that need to be filled, six more that need to be watched, I have to have four of my wisdom teeth pulled (And miss three-four days of school for that) and then have braces put in to space my teeth apart so that they can pull my two baby teeth that have no adult teeth (genetic condition) and put implants in their place as those teeth are just about finished. They're also going to fix my massive overbite and such.

Total cost: over $10,000

but apparently I need it and hopefully my parents dental plan will pay at least half if not more of that. If not... there are other options... though I don't particularly want to be the only 19 year old with dentures.

Other than that, life is good. I am fully caught up in school which is completely non-stressful and good. I'm even way ahead in a lot of areas. I continue to ace assignments and my marks are all above 90 (the lowest is 90.28 which will be going up I hope as I just completed another test in it, with top marks I believe). Beyond that, a few... perhaps interesting prospects opening up in the love department? Who knows where any of that will go, but I will sit back and take things slowly, let friendships build and see where it all goes.

But right now, I seriously need sleep as I am exhausted. I bid thee all goodnight!

*hugs*

Laterz

Dep

alright, short version news...

school good

new plan to lose weight, going good

new plan to save money beginning

Xirian code going well. Lots of work there for me in my off hours.

That's about it. See LJ for longer version.

Work to do now

*hugs to all*

Laterz

Dep

Apparently I'm still working Friday nights at the bowling alley. Somebody could have told me before I missed last week's shift, but oh well. The job is there, I get experience handling money and speaking french. w00t!

Asides from that, things are going good. Thank you Freya for the songs!

School: Still recieving top marks and I finished reading one of the textbooks in its entirety. On to the next one I suppose lol.

I'm planning on writing the Waterloo competition as well as the Canadian Open Mathematics Competition again this year, along with the Canadian Computing Competition which I have no clue what it is but it can't hurt.

Andy: Just a note for you, I did repost the letter I spoke about earlier (in case you didn't see it, as I have posted since in my LJ). Just scroll down, it's appropriately titled if you haven't read it already.

So yeah. That's about all I can think of. Welcome back to the Net Freya!

*hugs to all*

Dep

I know, it's been a long time.

I was checking out the CRC scores on the school's grades programs (I'll get to my grades in a moment). While my CRC score is, obviously, shit at the moment because of the failures last semester, suprisingly enough it was still good enough to get into some university programs (less competative ones) and was still inside the 'average' range.

Which means, if I bust my but this year (as I have been doing), that score will leap and things will be looking up.

Alright, on to averages. Our teachers are nice enough to give us the marking grid and I have written a wonderful spreadsheet that calculates my marks. Here we go...

French: No Assignments Yet
Knowledge: 100% (oh yeah)
Math: 99.29%
Operating Systems: 98.20%
Programming I: 90.31%
Web Programming I: 96.77%

Looking good so far, now I just got to keep them there.

Anyways, that's all I have to say

rock on

*hugs to all*

Laterz

Dep

PS: Look for new Footsteps Website coming soon.

My mother and I got to talking about my birthday present this year - I had made the suggestion a while back that a good present would be a ticket/bus fare to see Sonata Arctica live in concert again. So I opened up my favorite internet site (Greyhound.ca) and went looking for bus fares to various SA locations in the near future and then did the whole ticketmaster/admissions/ticketpro thing to get prices and times.

As I can't afford to take Wednesday off, we eliminated Toronto. Quebec City is too far away for me to return in time for classes (shitty bus schedule) and therefore we have narrowed it down to... Montreal... or... Montreal.

Thus, Saturday January 21st 2006, I shall be going to the wonderful town of Montreal to see Sonata Arctica live... for a grand total of $70+taxes.

All who wish to accompany me to see this awesome band are welcome, however you'll have to pay your own way there. But if we went as a group, it might be better (and if we get stuck overnight, like I did last time, we'll have more resources to pool to get a hotel somewhere).

Anyways, beyond that (as she doesn't read this, I feel fine mentioning it: no one mention it to her) I'm going to offer to buy Vicki the set of tickets to come with me to see the concert, so I'll have someone at least (assuming her mother approves and she can get the day off of work).

So I'm in a moderately good mood, having just planned the very broad strokes of a trip.

Thanksgiving in Sudbury remains up in the air - depends on money and whatnot. We'll have to see.

Freya, welcome back to the Internet full time, starting Wednesday. It'll be good to have you around more often, I know I've missed you a lot and I'm sure James and Daren will be excessively happy to have you back as well (they better be or I'll kick there... anyways...)

Anyways, yep I'm still alive and I'll post again soon.

PS: Anyone who goes to Heritage: if you've managed to set up MS Outlook access to your school email through the Microsoft Exchange Server, drop me a line on MSN or leave a comment because I've been mucking with this with the help of my Web Programming teacher and it still refuses to work. Thanks

PPS: Look for new website updates coming soon as I improve my knowledge of XHTML.

*hugs to all*

Laterz

Dep

Current Music: Anything for Love (Meatloaf)
Current Mood: Nostalgic (cute bubble guy)

Alright, mostly to bring you a new copy of my schedule - heavily modified since the last. It takes me an hour to get in and an hour to get home, so if you're trying to get in touch with me, wait til an hour after I finish and then try calling. Unless it's wednesday. Don't call on Wednesdays.

MONDAY
0900-1000 French
1200-1300 French Lab
1300-1400 Knowledge
1400-1600 Math
1600-1700 Programming

TUESDAY
0800-1000 Programming
1000-1200 Programming Lab
1300-1500 Knowledge
1600-1700 Operating Systems

WEDNESDAY
1000-1100 Web Programming
1100-1200 Programming
1300-1500 Operating Systems Lab
1500-1600 Math

THURSDAY
1000-1100 Knowledge
1100-1200 French
1300-1600 Web Programming Lab
1600-1700 Math

FRIDAY
1000-1100 Math
1100-1200 Operating Systems
1300-1400 Web Programming

As for writing

Pun Hell has been on the back burner for quite awhile. I know, perhaps... one or two of you are eager for the next chapters, but I just haven't been in the mood. Rather I have been working on perfecting the details of "Life, the Universe and Everything" - a random philosophical document I've been working on for awhile. Also very little in the way of poetry, but hey - it's all good.

Shockingly enough, I've been in a rather odd mood lately. Life hasn't given me any time to dwell or think about what has happened (probably why I can't write about it). It's new possibilities left and right, old problems to think about what to do about... now that I can actually do something about the problems I think about... and an incredibly amount of school work to take up my time.

Anyways, I do have the evening off, so I will see about writing you something.

And Freya... welcome back to the Internet... as I doubt I'll post again seriously before your intended return date of Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Welcome and we shall speak ASAP. (Check my schedule for when I should be on).

*hugs to all*

Laterz!

~ Dep ~

You know... I think I've come across the feeling I hate most.

It isn't being alone.

It isn't the memories of times past haunting me.

It's the feeling of not having a goal.

When you're with somebody, you have something and someone very specific to think about. You can plan your next adventure, focus on the problems or just daydream about them. When you're single, you don't have that. Instead you're faced with a daunting task of answering the question 'where do I go from here?'. Do I keep trying to patch things up; do I look at an older relationship and the possibilities of revisiting it or do I move on to something new?

That's where I'm stuck at at the moment. It's not a question that only has two answers, rather it has an almost infinite number of answers and I have absolutely no clue which one is right and which one is wrong. It's an incredibly frustrating and annoying feeling.

Poetry poetry poetry. I do have more poetry. I don't know when I'll get around to posting it - hopefully sometime soon.

On plus side, I got a piece of Java code that I've been trying to get working to work finally. The sweetness that is Java now lives!

If only the classes weren't huge to design and complex... but breaking that down will make it so much easier, especially if Chris and I can do it together.

Anyways, I just wanted a bit of a rant before I hit the hay.

UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday - PTY and possibly Daren's Bar Night
Friday - Nicky gets the Internet/OS Test/Math Test
Saturday/Sunday - Daren's LQ B-Day Party

*hugs to everyone*

Laterz

Dep

Alright... after the bad bad evil movie that I hope dies a million deaths and sells not one copy... a real update.

Briefly however as I believe I intend on sleeping soon - even though I have the day off tomorrow, I can't fuck up my sleep schedule too much.

School! Today I finished setting up things at home for school. I have every task I know about programmed into outlook, my schedule is all set up, the folders are all set up for school work at school and I finished my mark calculator today which will allow me to keep track of my current average. Everything is in readyness, once they quit fucking with my schedule.

It now looks like I will have a full day from 8, 9 or 10 (when I start isn't changing at all) til 5 every day except Friday - two of the courses are moving to other days (filling holes in our schedule), one is officially a tutorial class that we only need attend if we need help with our assignments (and usually I'm done mine and checked it twice by friday as they're due on monday) and this leaves one class... which is going to be from 11 to noon on Fridays. So four packed days and a 11-12 class on Friday. Pretty sweet.

So far, to the moment, I've done well on all the assignments. Top marks on what I've gotten back, which is encouraging. I've taken a brief look through the manuals - The programming looks like a combination of VB with Javascript - shouldn't be too hard for me to pick it up; the Web Programming focuses on XHTML instead of HTML so I have some new concepts to learn but the basics are the same. Operating Systems is going to be interesting as I have never known much about the hardware - we're past the basics now. Math... just looks boring. I think the most important lesson we are supposed to take away from this part of the class is that working in bases 2,4,8,16 or any other base is exactly like working in base 10... just carrying on the appropriate number instead of 10.

Courtney, if you're reading this and you haven't already - check out my LiveJournal. There's a private message for you there.

Things are going good otherwise. I'm off to bed soon after writing that private message.

G'night!

I went a-renting movies today, picked up one that Lisa had suggested (What The Bleep Do We Know) which I will be watching tomorrow (decided to save the best for last) and war of the worlds.

I watched War of the Worlds - I was expecting Dreamworks.

Turns out... I got the other War of the Worlds... the non-Dreamworks one...

Which is crap. The main actor even looks a bit like Tom Cruise, so we were sufficiently confused until the end.

The movie, sucked. It had stop-motion robots with crappy ray guns, terrible dialogue, a lack of a plot (man goes to Washington, DC to save his wife and kids, meets people along the way along with a few nasty aliens.). I officially give it a 4 on ten, for the following good things.

- The guy who is a real asshole dies.
- It is a happy ending... I like happy endings.
- It has a naked woman in the first five minutes - if you're looking for a good movie, watch this until she wraps a towel around herself then fast forward to the credits.
- The credits were hilarious... in a cheesy sortof way, but hilarious nevertheless.

Not worth the money renting nor the two hours watching.

*hugs to all*

~~ Dep ~~

PS: Review of 'What The Bleep Do We Know' coming tomorrow.

Well, to those of you who enjoy reading my poetry and such - the majority of the updates will now be done on a wonderful site I found called deviantART - that's the link to my profile. I believe you can read as you will without joining except for anything I have marked as 'Mature Content' - which there is some (all of Pun Hell is there as such, as are a number of poems which have some graphic elements to them). Not my choice to have these hidden from you, it's the site - I kindof agree with it. The accounts are free however, so if you want to make one just to read stuff go ahead (I love comments still).

An interesting fact. I just googled my nickname 'darkelfpoet'. Here are the results...

1. http://darkelfpoet.tripod.com SWEET MY WEBSITE IS NUMBER ONE!
2. MTG:News Forum (user:darkelfpoet) Yeah... this is me as well...
3. Writing.com (user:darkelfpoet) That's me...
4. deviantART (user:darkelfpoet) That's also me...
5. http://darkelfpoet.blogspot.com Hey... that's... this site...

The other hits (total of 16) were from the same sites, just multiple places where it appears.

So it appears that... I am the only Darkelfpoet on the internet, at least that Google picked up. I should repeat on other search engines. Anyways.

Sweet...

Not much else in the way of updates... life is moderately good at the moment. School is going well - boring, but my marks are high so far. Haven't missed any serious class time either. Doing good, going into week three (which is where problems started 1st semester last year).

Hurricane... very sad.

Best wishes to Lisa who'll be starting college soon, to Nicole who will be starting university soon, to Courtney who will also be starting university soon and to Sarah... who will also be starting university soon.

Anyways... I know I had shit to babble about but damned if I can remember. Perhaps tomorrow. In the meantime - go check out deviantART - it's awesome.

*hugs to all*

~~ Dep ~~

I know that recently I have been rather... blunt and overly harsh about people here. I wish to ask their forgiveness - especially of Courtney. While a lot of what I wrote I still feel to be true, I realize that this is not the forum for it. And I also realize that I have overreacted.

People aren't perfect. I can't expect anyone to be perfect not even for me. I myself am not perfect and to expect it of others would just be hypocritical. I've made a long list of mistakes over the past few months. I've screwed up two good things at once - and yes they were both good things.

So... there isn't much else to say except I'm sorry for screwing up so badly and I wish both of you long and happy lives. If I could do things over again, I would do them differently. I would try to find a solution for the problems we faced instead of letting them ruin our relationship. I would not have gotten involved with someone else until after the relationship had ended, if it would have ended. I know I tried, but I doubt I tried hard enough to explain to you how I was feeling and how big of a problem it was. I hold you blameless in this for you did not have the chance to make things right... and now that I see this, it is too late to fix anything - I've already tarnished your feelings for me beyond your ability to shine them. And I have driven Sarah away this time for good.

This has turned into a gigantic mess that I never wanted it to be. I am trying to move on with my life as apparently that is the best course of action for me at this time. But I know I will always remember what I have learned from this, as it has cost me so much - too much.

I really don't know if I will be able to continue this journal. We'll just have to see.

I really don't feel like writing more... I just want to be alone... I think I'm going to go to Tim Hortons tonight - I doubt I can sleep.

*hugs to all*

~~ Dep ~~