Whoa!

Where did the time go!? I went out for sushi tonight with some friends (and boy am I an avid sushi fan), and when a friend mentioned he had a new public blog, I remembered I had one myself that I hadn’t updated in a while.  Oops. It’s a little weird writing in a public blog, after having written in a private one for so long. For one thing, I’m a lot more conscious about how I talk, whereas in my private one, I feel free to throw around as much bad grammar, nerd-speak, and abbreviations as I please. Hopefully, I’ll relax enough so that I can have a happy medium between the two.

So much for summer being a slow and relaxing time. Before I know it, summer’s flown by and I haven’t accomplished as much as I nearly wanted to (isn’t that how it always works…?). Anywho, in the month long gap where I haven’t updated, I:

- Took a trip to Boston, and visited the Museum of Science, which I haven’t seen since I was in 6th grade. Boy did things look different from how I remembered them…everything seemed so much smaller, and sadly enough, I was a lot less amazed. (The most alarming realization I had was seeing the probability ball drop in the math section, and seeing that it created a bell curve…”But…that’s how our grades are determined!” *shudder*)

I took along my sister and her boyfriend too, and they went off to visit Tufts University. I also met up with a friend and had the best Italian food ever, at a little restaurant called Antico Forno.  Seriously, now–I’ve had Italian food, and I’ve had Italian food, and this was..just absolutely amazing. I don’t know what they put in their sauce, but it was just..mmm. We also made a visit to Mike’s Pastry, where I purchased some cannolis (and they *are* pretty good.)

- Went to a wedding, where I promptly forgot about my fear about dancing in public and danced away. It was pretty fun, and I’m glad I ended up going with a light and flowy dress (it got pretty hot in the dance room!) I also sampled the most excellent alcoholic mixed drinks (their names I’ve unfortunately forgotten though.) I think I’m shaping up to be a pretty picky alcohol-consumer—none of that regular ol’ beer or gasoline-tasting vodka; I’ll have the good-tasting stuff, thank you very much. (Spending a summer in Europe didn’t help either, where I could legally sample as many mixed drinks as I pleased…or as many as I could hold anyway, which isn’t that much, coincidentally, harhar.)

- Saw a ton of movies. I guess it makes up for not watching any TV or movies during the school year. Let’s see…I’ve seen: Resident Evil 1 & 2 (pretty good!), Ratatouille (excellent, and the art was spectacular, of course), Oceans 13 (good), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (it’s good if you haven’t read the book, and not so good otherwise, imo), Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, The Gravedancers, The Abandoned, 1408 (pretty good)…I’m still looking forward to The Simpsons and Neil Gaiman’s Stardust (!!).

- Finished the menus and spiffy-upped the general look of the interface, and now I’m happy to say that I think I finally got the hang of Javascript, CSS, and HTML. It was also a good review on my Java skills, which needed some polishing up on after a semester-long break. Now I’m working on C and some business with magnetic card swipe readers.. (haven’t got a clue about where to start, quite honestly. Amusingly enough, the woman I’m working on the project with told me that the best lesson she ever learned was to just get used to “feeling stupid” whenever she switched jobs. I agree.)

-  Am partaking in the Harry Potter madness. Actually, now I’ve read the first page of the 7th book and heard two spoilers. You’d think I’d learn my lesson and ban myself from the internet until I finish the 7th book or something…but no. I do things the hard way.

I’m looking forward to enjoying the rest of the summer to the fullest extent…This has been one of the best ones, which is a good thing, because I have a feeling that the semester won’t be…(ewwww theory of computation, go away!!)