sean's place

Dry Eyes

I should really see a doctor about allergies. I seem to be having classic allergy-related symptoms lately (stuffy nose, sneezing, dry eyes, etc) – basically, since the onset of Spring. I normally sneeze several times during the day during the regular course of the year (probably due to the insane amount of dust in this apartment), but this is getting crazy. Damn Kaiser and not having service in San Luis Obispo County.

Not a whole lot has happened in the intervening time since I last wrote about myself. (March 15th – B In Compilers) Spring Quarter has started at Cal Poly, and I’m again under pressure to produce academically as well as professionally and socially.

This quarter brings the following classes:

• CSC X492 – Senior Project 2. Repeating this course from last quarter, since I got too inundated to finish last time. Things are going swimmingly now.
• CPE 453 – Operating Systems. Lots of C programming and low-level details of operating systems. Fun stuff. Dr. Nico is cool too.
• CPE 365 – Databases. I thought this course would be a cop-out since I’ve been a database developer for the last 5 years or so semi-professionally. I think I stand to learn a lot of stuff in this course, but my experience as thus far proven useful in expediting homework.
• PHYS 132 – General Physics II, Oscillations and Waves. My professor is from London and is awesome. I don’t typically like these classes, but I think I might be able to tolerate this one.

More than that, I am on the hook until May 27th (when my work-at-home agreement runs out) for work. I have decided to cut my hours in accordance with my academic goals. I will no longer be filling my timecard with leave hours (unless they are legitimate leave hours) to make 18, nor will I actively try to pursue 18 hour weeks. My goal is to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 12-15 hours per week, and as many as 18 as the situation warrants. I need to figure out a consistent work schedule to accomodate this though – my class schedule is a bit funky. (I have 3 labs this quarter. Ugh.)

Nothing to report on the social front. Sarah and I are about to hit 5 months next week. (I bet I’m the only one who knew that though ) I’m also trying to get my social life to work in between my school and work life in the form of copious amounts of poolination, and some moderate racquetball. So far I have a regular game with Aaron on Thursdays, and I hope to get a similar arrangement with Paul sometime early in the week or on the weekend.

Lessee…

The unusually awesome David (that is, he is unusually awesomer than most) installed an iPod dock into my car. This is awesome since I no longer need to worry about my iPod dying mid-trip, since it runs off car-power now. I also got rid of that lame cable that extended out of my back dash paneling. It’s all nice and integrated now. David also installed auxiliary input ports on the front paneling, in case an auxiliary device wants to share its sweet music. Still need to beautify the situation though… but I think the hard work is done.

TIger should be out any day now. Damn you Apple, release it!

I’m gonna stop here before I let this entry extend into book-sized proportions (because if I’d planned it that way, I’d have written it in LaTeX. Duh.)

POGS. (care to guess what that stands for? it’s obvious.)