And I didn't even cheat!!

Ok, so maybe this blog will only contain silly online quiz results and occasional complaining, but I wanted to post this anyway:

You're Canada!
People make fun of you a lot, but they're stupid because you've got a much better life than they do. In fact, they're probably just jealous.

You believe in crazy things like human rights and health care and not dying in the streets, and you end up securing these rights for yourself and others. If it weren't for your weird affection for ice hockey, you'd be the perfect person.
Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

And since I'm not a huge hockey fan, I guess I'm perfect! :-)

Stating the obvious

Ok, so most of this fairly accurate. I still hold that "geek" and "cool" are not mutualy exclusive though.

The Deviant Geek
You answered 80% of the questions as a geek truly would.

You're a geek and you know it. You've got all sorts of fringe hobbies and socially unacceptable tendencies. Chances are, whenever possible, you hate to be grouped with other people and sometimes go out of your way just to be different.

You're smart too. You're more willing to depend on your own brainpower to solve problems, instead of relying on others to pull you through life. You probably read a lot, and generally enjoy learning new things.

So what's it all mean? You may be considered by some to be uncool, but you probably don't care either. In social situations you may be either slightly passive or slightly loud (geeks always fall into the extremes). In a nutshell, you answered enough questions correctly supporting a geek philosophy to be considered a more potent geek than 60% of the population.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 76% on geekness

Link: The True Geek Test written by ambientred

Woe is me

Reading back over that last post, it does seem like I'm complaining a lot. Looks pretty typical of a lot of emo teenager livejournals with their drama filled lives. Maybe I should have kept most of that to myself, but oh well. It's not like I've widely distributed the link to this anyway. So rest assured, dear reader (most likely, me) that my life isn't so horrible. Did I just talk to myself over the internet? Am I still doing it? Guess that makes me a little crazy as well as emotionaly unstable. ;-)

Getting worn out

Ran across this at work today: The Ultimate Machine. A machine who's entire purpose when activated is to turn itself off. At the same time both very cool and very creepy.

Didn't really have a great weekend. Without Friday off, it was a lot shorter than normal too. Even though I've only been working 30 scheduled hours a week, I'm really feeling any extra hours I do get. I suppose it's good since I'm paid for it, but not having as much time off the last two weeks in a row has been a little draining. This job is pretty tough to take in batches of more than 3 hours at a time or so, even if I hardly get anything accomplished during a few of them each day. It's become even more so ever since most of the people I knew stopped working here. Sam and Lesley were fun to listen to and helped a lot with some of the bigger projects with short deadlines. I miss being able to commiserate about special assignments and working with Xuan. And I miss being able to see and talk to Jennifer on a regular basis, even if she did hate the job.

Something needs to change. I'm surviving, but for the most part, I'm just living from one weekend to the next. I often feel unappreciated and ignored. That's not to say I always am, but it seems like I've been losing the people I'm closest to. Daniel moving away and Laurie soon too doesn't help. I'm going to miss them. At least Jonathan and Carter will be back after the summer. Still, I've been kinda separated from everyone around me, and I'm not enjoying it. I guess this isn't going to fix itself; if I want to improve things I'm going to have to do something about it.

Even more stuff I don't quite need

I've spent far too much money the last couple months. Normally, I'm pretty conservative in my spending, but I've suddenly splurged on a few big things; far more than I probably would have spent on smaller, more indulgent things in the mean time. The camping trip, going to Colorado, and finally getting a laptop have certainly given my bank account a workout, but I don't really regret the decisions, so I suppose it's money well spent. There have also been numerous expenses in moving into my new place, plus renewing my car insurance, and tuition coming up (which I may or may not be reimbursed for, depending on financial aid) so the comfort margins of my balance are shrinking somewhat. I'm really not all that worried, on average I'm making a bit more than I'm spending, but I'm not going to be making any large purchases for the next several months.

That said, I still need a couple things for the new computer, and I've been trying to decide the best and least wasteful way to get them. Once school starts, I'm probably going to need a new backpack since I'm off campus now, my old one is broken, and I'll want to carry my computer with me. I've more or less decided on this one:

Hopefully it'll have space for books and everything; I looked at one in Fry's, and it should be ok so long as I don't have to carry more than a couple of the really thick textbooks. Most of the bags I've looked at have been pretty expensive, but this one's not too bad. I'd really feel guilty spending money on it, but I still have an Amazon.com gift certificate from Christmas, and I got some apartment deposit money back. Should be able to cover this, a mouse, and maybe a game too. Still, I'm not going to need all this for another couple months, so there's no real reason to spend the money besides the novelty factor. It's been great to see that God has provided for me, and I know He will continue to. Anything I'm expecting and He doesn't grant me I probably don't need anyway; I've been trying to remember how blessed I really am, even when I don't always feel like it.

Project Genesis

I ran across this at work today and thought it was kinda funny:
Project Genesis

This kind of thing is starting to seem way to familiar at my job. Oh well, at least I can more or less do what I want at work without getting into too much trouble.

Blah..

Today's one of those days where I really have no ability or desire to concentrate on work, so I'm posting this instead. I haven't really given this link to anyone yet, so if you read this, leave a comment and let me know.

The last couple weeks have been rough. I'd go into detail, but I am still at work and I'm not sure I want everything to become public knowledge if I do ever share this. Oh well. Suffice it to say I've been going through an extra round of lonelyness/depression/antisocial tendancies. Man, I'm not even coherrent. So much for productivity today, I'll have to get all this out at home in a less published place.