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Long time, no post

Robin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:11:27 +0000

Same old story, I guess. To be honest, I kind of forgot about this place. I guess a lot has been going on and I just pushed all my sites to the back burner.

I’m still looking for an internship for the summer. I had an interview with an advertising agency in Dallas on Friday. I think it went well but I won’t know about it for a week or so. I need to keep looking. It’s really frustrating but I need to be optimistic.

School is going well. My classes and the projects are going well. Spring Break already came and went. I went on a cruise with my parents to Jamaica, Cayman Islands, and Mexico. It was amazing and so much fun. I’m SO glad I did something this year since it’s my last Spring Break ever – I’m graduating and getting my Masters degree in December! :D

My desktop’s hard drive crashed last week and I’ve been trying to get it fixed. I would have replaced it this past weekend but my mom said she had coupons at her house that would allow us to basically get it for free. So I’m waiting for this weekend to go home and fix it. I would have had to pay at least $300 for someone to do it but I think I can do it myself. Doesn’t seem too difficult. *crosses fingers*

I guess the biggest news of all is that my sister is getting married! She got engaged right before Spring Break. I’m so happy for her. She’s getting married on October 30, which is 7 months away from today. It seems so long and distant in the future but I know time will pass so quickly. Plus the 7 months will be *hopefully* enough time to slim down and look good for the big day. It’s very exciting. :D

I have had Lifehouse’s new album, Smoke & Mirrors, on repeat since it came out a few weeks ago. I really love it and I think it’s great. They’re my favorite band and I would probably love anything that they released.

My first semester of graduate school is over!

Robin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:43:58 +0000

…And I’m SO glad it’s over. It was a rough semester and now it’s time for a break and the celebrate!

The winter break will be spent relaxing, trying to improve my resume, and getting it out to everyone and every company imaginable in hopes of landing an internship for the summer. :)

I really suck at blogging here. I’m going to try to get better since I feel like I’ve been neglecting the site and I just renewed it. Don’t want my money to go to waste now, do I? haha.

I really need to pack since I have SO much junk to haul home tomorrow and I don’t want to spend all day tomorrow packing. Woohoo!

I suck at this

Robin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:54:45 +0000

Haha. Haven’t posted since September. Blah blah. I’ve been really busy and trying not to have too many break downs in the process. Right now, for the next few weeks, it’s crunch time as far as it comes to class projects. I have 2 due next week and 2 due the week after Thanksgiving. Therefore, this week and next are even more busy and stress-filled than usual. I just can’t wait until Thanksgiving, then finals, then FINALLY winter break. La la. About 4 weeks left. These are the times I wish I had a TARDIS. *sigh*

For now I leave you all (whoever ends up reading this sorry excuse for a ‘blog’) with an animation from one of my newly appointed favorite TV shows, Supernatural:

Kind of describes my thought on my life right now, by the way…

The angles were all wrong now

Robin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:39:58 +0000

I am so full of fail right now. Life is super busy with school. Every class has at least 2 group/team projects, multiple exams, tons of reading. I’m clinging on to sanity right now. Had a few breakdowns because of the stress. I had a TA job offer but had to turn it down because I felt like I didn’t have enough time to devote to work and do my ‘best’ in school. I’m glad I turned it down because I’d be even more crazy/stressed out right now if I had to work 20 hours a week on top of school demands. Blah. I knew grad school was tough but I didn’t think it would break me in the first month.

My birthday is in 10 days and I really don’t know what to think about it. I’m excited because I get stuff and I get to go home. But my sister may not be able to visit because of recent travel changes at work. I also have 2 tests and a few presentations the week after and that’s all I feel I’ll be thinking about the whole weekend. I feel like I’m turning 24 and haven’t really done anything in my life. No real job, no sign of a love life at all. I feel so lonely up here since most of the people I knew from undergrad are gone and everyone has other friends. It just gets me down sometimes that I’m getting older and feel like I’m spinning my wheels.

See? Me = fail. I’ll stop. I need to continue to work on an assignment for school. Woo.

Summer’s almost over…

Robin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:48:28 +0000

T-C.org is now using WP 2.8.4 – finally. After a LOT of hassle with my FTP program. I wish WP didn’t have upgrades as often – it becomes a hassle! That and Coppermine seem to have upgrades quickly after one is already released. Anyway, does anyone have any good recs for FTP programs? I use Core FTP but it keeps ‘Not Responding’ whenever I upload large amounts of stuff. It took me ages to get this site and my other sites’ WordPress versions upgraded because of that. Free is good too and so is the whole ‘Drag and drop’ concept. :) Any suggestions?

Summer School ended on Tuesday. My final was pretty easy. I got my grade a few minutes ago – an A! I’m so thrilled! I guess I’ll be rocking a 4.0 for a little longer. And that’s good because I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep that GPA up once I really start my curriculum this fall. Now I get to relax for 2 weeks before it starts all over again. I’m home right now. I drove home this afternoon and I’m just chilling at my parents’ house. We’re going to Florida on Saturday for a week. Can’t wait! :D

Take a month of Sundays to try and explain

Robin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:56:36 +0000

Again, I NEED to update this more. I guess I just forget about this place. Not much has happened within the past few weeks.

Summer Session 1 ended on July 1st. I got an A in my Stats class and didn’t even have to take the final! I was so worried about the exam and I spent the whole day and night before it worrying and stressing about it. Thank goodness I didn’t have to take it! I don’t know how I would have done if I had to take the final. But, now it’s over and done. So Yay!

I spent the 4th of July at my parent’s house relaxing for a few days. My brother and sister-in-law came in with the kids and we played with them the whole weekend. Mainly watching movies, swimming, and trying to avoid WW3 and keeping the kids from fighting too much.

Summer Session 2 started last Monday. It’s going OK I think. I won’t actually know how it is until I take my first test – next Monday. We have a group project that’s due at the end of the session. I hope it ends up well and not too stressful. Hopefully everyone in my group will do their share of the work and not load their responsibilities. That’s really what I dread about group projects. I can’t seem to trust people in groups unless I know them well. And since I don’t know these people well, I can’t help but be skeptical about them. Is that bad or rude of me? I don’t think so. I’d be skeptical of me if I didn’t know me very well. LOL.