logomancer | Summer in Review

There's been a lot happening over the last few months. To start off, I graduated from high school, and have the little diploma-card to prove it. For some reason, they wouldn't let me (or my friends) blow bubbles at the commencement. They even threatened to hold my diploma if I blew bubbles again! Guess I should've figured that, with my high school's flagpole-up-the-ass administrators. A message to the AHS administration: Lighten up, and remember whose graduation it is.

This was immediately followed by a week-long stay at my grandmother's. It's the closest thing that we get to a vacation in our family. On the way there, my mom's car -- a beater that my uncle Bill sold us after my mom's old car broke down -- experienced a transmission failure, thus necessitating my walking up the exit to call my uncle from a pay phone. When he arrived, he proceeded to tell us that "beaters are for driving around town," despite the fact that he sold the car to us and my mom's old car worked for nine years throughout road trips a-plenty.

That wasn't half as bad as what I faced when we got my grandmother's. We didn't go much of anywhere on our vacation, save for a historic fort and a wildlife zoo. Did I mention my grandmother doesn't like me very much? I mean, many others resent me too, but they aren't family. Anyway, that week sucked.

Then came my job search. You'd think a person of my intelligence could easily find a job anywhere. Think again; 13 applications and I'm just now finding a job, which I'll abandon in a couple of weeks to go to college. I had a couple of interviews, but they didn't want me after that. I rack my brains asking myself why not. Ah well...

I also went to Virginia Tech for orientation. It was a good weekend. My sister was complaining the whole way about walking everywhere, which we did. The one thing that put me off was that they are "cracking down" on Napster/Gnutella-type file sharing, and making a big deal out of it. I thought it was a technologically-enlightened school, since it's mainly an engineering university (and I'm entering their Computer Science program, which is also said to be pretty good). Ah well. Guess that means I'll have to avoid getting caught...

I have more, but it deserves its own entry.