A Journal Article

2007-11-06 journal

This has been a pretty full day for me, all things told. I managed to create a blog script, a news script, revamp my comments scripts, and make a blog post, all in one evening. This after arising at 5:45 so I could get my calculus homework done. It's so nice to log in and see 22 out of 25 for an assignment I didn't even have my notebook for.

In case you were wondering, there's not a lot of substance to this post. For that reason, I've categorized it as "journal"; It's just a chance for me to blog about what I've been doing the past few days. I need to do this every so often.

Last Saturday, I had a chance to participate in the ACM Mid Central USA Programming Contest. You're given seven problems and five hours in which to come up with working solutions for them, and work in teams of three. I was on my school's "C" team. We only solved one problem, but we were well on our way to a second and third solution, and probably would have gotten them if there hadn't been extenuating circumstances (bloody Netbeans kept crashing and I had to reboot the computer several times because Windows doesn't have kill -9 kind of circumstances.) Hopefully I'll get a chance to compete next year, now that I know what to expect. They'll never know what hit them when I break out my C programming skills! Heh.

I had chili for the first time in my life on Sunday... and I LIKED it! It's amazing what laying down your prejudices and trying new things can do for you. Of course, it helps when you implicitly trust the people offering you the opportunity. At least, that's been my experience.

That's kind of a strange thought... implicit trust. I'm not generally a trusting kind of guy. I prefer to do things for myself. I like to believe it's because I think I'll do them right, but for the most part, I'm just arrogant. I'd substitute "confident" in there, but I need to be objective here. I tend towards arrogance in my actions, even when I think I'm being humble. That's a really rough blow to my thought patterns... but one I need, I'm sure. I thank God for the friends and family who have given me so much of late. It gives me a chance to be myself; not the self-doubter full of bluster, but the (slightly) goofy guy who does well when he tries his best, and is fully aware of how much he's really worth. Life makes more sense when I'm around them.

Well, that's really all I have to ramble about right now. Hopefully tomorrow will work out better than today did... because today wasn't bad.

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