So college is done. Commencement is in May, but I'll be receiving my degree in January. My final GPA: 3.459. This doesn't mean much, I know, but at least I wasn't slacking too hard the last 4 and a half years. Somehow I managed to earn a B+ in my Argentina class this last semester, although this is probably due in large part to the proofreading efforts of my Spanish-speaking friends. Whatever.
Been floating freely between Boston and Foxboro this last week. Starting today, I'll have a more permanent spot in the city as I'm serpent-sitting for Julie while she's away on break, and am receiving free housing in return. I've never had any sort of business with a snake before (literally speaking), but I think I'm gonna like this one as it's small, harmless and fun to play with.
I signed my lease a couple of days ago, so I'm very definitely moving in to JP on the 1st, and then life can take on some sort of normalcy... maybe.
At the moment, I'm 3 days through an 11 consecutive-day work stint. This sucks hard, but after my next paycheck, I won't be complaining, especially with the time and a half I get on Christmas. Still, I think my head might explode if I have to hear Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby sing about mistletoe for much longer. I get a few days off around New Years at least, I just need something to do for the occasion. I hate the idea of paying for a ticket to get in some bar or restaurant only to have to dish out again to get a few beers. Somebody needs to have a house party.
Ooh, and I know you don't care, but I got an 80 gig iPod for a graduation present. So hot.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
The End of Dan's [formal] Education
Ahh. Here's a quick one just in case you aren't sure what's up with my life at the moment.
So here I am at the very end of my college education. I have under a week to go before I am finished forever (unless I one day decide to go to grad school, which is currently not in the cards). I'm occupied, to a ridiculous extent, with finishing 3 major projects: my 22 minute behemoth of a student film, a "professional quality" edit of a climactic fight scene of an episode of Highlander (that stupid 90s show about immortal British people chopping one another's heads off), and a 12 page paper about Argentina in relation to all the crap* I supposedly read about in class (en español). It's a lot of junk heaved on my plate and it's all due on Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, all three of these undertakings involve my staring at a computer screen for a total of 12+ hours a day. My poor eyeballs. I'm working a few shifts at Starbucks between now and then, as well. These will serve as breaks for my oculars. I'm confident everything will come out just sterling, however, so no worries. I am, after all, pretty goddamned incredible.
I've been looking at apartments in Jamaica Plain, which will likely be my place of residence for the next year or so (hopefully not much longer than that). I'll be looking for jobs within my field very shortly, and will hopefully not fall into the quagmire that is the Starbucks Career Ladder. The chances of this happening, regardless of my getting a job in the TV industry, are exceedingly thin, however.
So that's about everything in two short paragraphs.
Any questions?
*Most of it isn't actually crap, and is in fact exceedingly incredible literature, but when I have to write 12 pages about it, it automatically receives the "crap" label.
So here I am at the very end of my college education. I have under a week to go before I am finished forever (unless I one day decide to go to grad school, which is currently not in the cards). I'm occupied, to a ridiculous extent, with finishing 3 major projects: my 22 minute behemoth of a student film, a "professional quality" edit of a climactic fight scene of an episode of Highlander (that stupid 90s show about immortal British people chopping one another's heads off), and a 12 page paper about Argentina in relation to all the crap* I supposedly read about in class (en español). It's a lot of junk heaved on my plate and it's all due on Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, all three of these undertakings involve my staring at a computer screen for a total of 12+ hours a day. My poor eyeballs. I'm working a few shifts at Starbucks between now and then, as well. These will serve as breaks for my oculars. I'm confident everything will come out just sterling, however, so no worries. I am, after all, pretty goddamned incredible.
I've been looking at apartments in Jamaica Plain, which will likely be my place of residence for the next year or so (hopefully not much longer than that). I'll be looking for jobs within my field very shortly, and will hopefully not fall into the quagmire that is the Starbucks Career Ladder. The chances of this happening, regardless of my getting a job in the TV industry, are exceedingly thin, however.
So that's about everything in two short paragraphs.
Any questions?
*Most of it isn't actually crap, and is in fact exceedingly incredible literature, but when I have to write 12 pages about it, it automatically receives the "crap" label.
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