Adam Hinz: The Blog
On 2004-10-29 at 10/29/2004 11:19:00 AM...
FUHI am so tired right now. Last night Skiba and I ran a mile at the SRSC and then played basketball with some other guys on the floor. I think we played 4 games total, and it just killed me. Anyway, enough about that.
I think Skiba and I are gonna try and hit up some parties this weeked, it being halloween and all. I need a costume...
Did I mention I'm tired? Right now I'm in the Lindley Hall computer lab. I have about an hour before my linguistics discussion starts. Usually at this time I'm upstairs in the lounge with my laptop, but today I was wrongly afraid it might rain. Well the forecast says rain aroudn 3pm, so tha'ts the deal with that.
I would take a nap in the lounge, but I won't for 2 reasons:
1) For some reason I can't get the alarm on my watch to work, so (like last time I slept up there) I'd probably end up late to my class.
2) There's a sign that says "This lounge is not for sleeping."
Maybe I'll hit up the union and get soemthing to eat. I don't know. Just bored and tired right now, mindlessly rambling in my blog, listening to launch.com radio (oooh sigur ros).
Just thought I'd say I'm kicking ass in my classes right now. I think I have an A+ in my programming class, and in Calc 2 I have the highest grade in the class, which means if he curves it that will be an A+ too (I'm right up there with the all the Asian kids!). Linguistics is pretty good. I think I've only missed 3 questions on all the quizes, except that one I forgot to take (prof says not to worry if you miss one quiz, whatever that means). I did get 54/55 on the midterm, so I think that should be alright. And I think I got a 95 in Spanish, so yeah, kickin' ass at the univ!
Alright, I'm going to fidn something else to do. Maybe my Calc, that might be a good idea...though it's not due til monday....meh
So long!
Adam
On 2004-10-24 at 10/24/2004 10:03:00 PM...
A few quotes before I forget them"What the hell is so funny?" -I don't actually remember this being said, but I remember rembering it, and I remember about 5 seconds later forgetting who said it.
"Wait, hold on. I'm not done laughing yet." - Kolski about 2 minutes after Dave saying "What the hell is an RPG? Rocket propelled gernade?" because we were talking about that funny video thing with the guys playing an RPG and how a lot of people don't get the jokes in it--he was imitating the guys who don't get it.
This weeked was all-around fun! Woo! Friday, I came home from class, took a 2 hour nap, did shit on the computer (whatever it is I usually do (not look at porn, assholes)), then Skiba and I made a 12 am Kroger run. They didn't have cheap enough Capri Suns, so we tried Wal-mart. I got 5 boxes of those, a loaf of bread, and air freshener, and 3 puzzles.
Saturday, woke up around 1:30, no one was doing anything, plus it was raining, so I decided to do one of my puzzles. That was totally great. Kolski, Clint, and Skiba came and helped, and we finished in time for McD's and then Red Sox game (i didn't watch all of it....whatever). Mom and Dad came to see me that night, too, so they picked me up around 10 and we got pizza from Pizza Express and took it back to their hotel. Mom and I split a bottle of wine (don't be sick dudes) and we watched the end of the game.
Dad dropped me off, and Kolski, Clint, Clint's girlfriend, and I played some masturbating*-pong (nn), until we got naked** (nn again), and then we played some Kings, and masturbated (nn one more time) more. Dave came over too and Kolski, Dave, and I stayed up until around 7 talkin and shit. Then I went to bed, and Mom called aroudn 10:30 and we went to Steak n Shake and borders and Barnes and Noble. I got Parachute by Guster and a book by Stever Martin (mmm). Had a fun dinner with the floor, and I've jus been chillin all night. Good good weekend.
that's about it. Don't wanna write too much.
So long!
*for the sake of rules, masturbating=drinking, beer, etc.
**naked=drunk
On 2004-10-19 at 10/19/2004 09:20:00 PM...
Another Spider made its web in my window, and I was lucky enough to catch it midway. I must've sat there watching for 15 minutes...I just hope no one outside thought I was staring at them.I went home this weekend, first time home since I left. Everything seems pretty much the same, except for the little I no longer have a room thing. Tony took out my bed and moved in all his recording equipment. My room is now a recording studio. It's actually pretty cool, but I'm torn that I don't really have a room anymore. All my stuff is still in there, which makes me a little nervous because he'll have friends over there. But it should stay in pretty good shape. When I first found out I told mom to hide all my money I still had in there. I brought back a bunch of clothes which should keep laundry off a few weeks.
Monday was the worst. Rain rain rain. I was wet all day. After my first class, when I have a 2 hour break, I came home and hung up my pants to try and let them dry. After that, it was total wetness for the rest of the day. I had my linguistics midterm, got 54/55 or something, so that's good. Tutored, then went to see Max Weinberg and got his autograph He gave a very good talk about his life...playing on Conan, playing for the E Street Band behind Bruce Springsteen. It was all very intersting.
Today, I only had 2 classes, but it seemed like a lot more. It went something like this Calc 2 recitation, lunch, spanish homework, subject of science experiment (I got $12 for that w00t), small lunch/dinner, more spanish homework, spanish class, study for C211 (programming) midterm, take midterm (7-9pm wtf?), dinner, and now homework.
I wasn't ever stressed out today, which makes me mucho happy. It reminded me of junior year when I was crazy busy with school, robitics, and my job. But I totally owned this year, just by taking things one at time. I love doing this.....just chugging along. whoo whoo (like a train).
That's all for now. So long folks!
Adam
On 2004-10-15 at 10/15/2004 04:06:00 PM...
AaaahFriday never fails
I was generally miserable today; not so much in classes, but between classes. It was windy, that small, drizzle rain that stings your face, and darkly overcast (that's right, darkly).
The shitty weather didn't have an impact on my classes, however. In Calculus 2, I stayed after and asked the professor a question about the webwork (I was gonna ask during class but we ran out of time). That was good because I confidently told him the derivitive of (1.01)^x is ln(1.01)*(1.01)^x. BOOYAH.
Had lunch at Collins (mmmm chick'n noodles, but not nearly as good as high school) while reading Catch-22 (damn that book is good). This is actually the second time i'm reading it. I read it last summer, but it was somewhat intermittent reading.
Next was linguistics discussion, which was very very fun because we watched a movie from the 1980s about different American dialects. It was basically a bunch of casual inverviews to expose you to the differnt ways people talk. Smart and fun!
Then was CS lab, which took longer than usual because people haven't been doing the assignments. BLAH SHAME ON YOU FOLKS.
After CS, I put on my sweatshirt and braced myself for the bitter shittiness that is the outside. But alas! The wind is gone. The rain is gone. Most of the clouds are gone, and the sky is a brilliant blue. It was amazing. It was like BOOM instant swing to the very happy mood I have come to associate with Fridays. Just wonderful.
I was gonna come home this afternoon, but David, who was gonna give me a ride, was given a last minute test for either Friday night or Saturday morning. So instead I'll stay here tonight and maybe leave with David Saturday morning. What can you do, eh? But taht means I can go to Midnight Madness--the first official practice the IU basketball team is allowed to have. It's also a total drunk fest, I believe. I'm gonna see if I can tag along with Skiba tonight. Should be good times.
So long! Farewell!
On 2004-10-14 at 10/14/2004 09:29:00 PM...
Last night I had a dream that my little brother told me that the sqeaking I hear outside my window, which I firmly believe is two or more bats having sex, is actually the last of the dying cicadas.I have a new pet spider. Slightly smaller than the last one, but equally loving.
On 2004-10-12 at 10/12/2004 01:44:00 AM...
Hola hombresAs of Sunday at 6:25 pm, 5 minutes before I was to work dining room at Wright Food Court, I am no longer an employee of that place. Do I regret it? eh...a little. It was good pay for easy work, but god I hated that place. Like I said, they had me on dining room, which would have been the second day in a row. It's not hard, but god it's boring. You usually get stuck working with some old non-English speaking fellow who's been there for 20 years and he only wants you to do trays while he does trash (he only does trash so he can sneak out back and smoke a cig).
The head lady asked me why I didn't want to work there anymore (she wasn't upset or anything--they hire like 150 students), and I said I just didn't like working there. She then asked me if I was a freshman, and I said yes. She said "Uh huh. Yeap." I said "Come on, don't stereotype me," and she said "Well many freshman have a hard time adjusting to the stress of college life." I said "Oh no! It's not that. I think I just want out of the food industry." (which was mostly a lie. I just wanted out of Satan's asshole.
I've been thinking a lot lately why the real reason I quite was, you know, in case a future employee asks about it. I think I got the answer: I would like more responsibility. Whew! Kick-ass! At Wright, students basically serve food the entire time; nothing else. I can't stand that. It's boring as hell.
In other news, I woke up at 10am for a 10:10 class, so I rode my bike to Ballentine in 8 minutes and got there about 30 seconds before class started. Good thing too! We started working on infinite series, which seem confusing as hell. I need to study that. Shit, I need to study for my Calc quiz tomorrow.
Had my first tutoring session today. I think it went alright, although I could tell he was confused by some of my explanations. Hopefully I can do a little better next Wednesday. Apparantly his math teacher is out, and they have a different sub everyday. The sub just asks if there's any questions, the kids say now, and there's no homework. The thing is they will go on with tests as scheduled, so the kids are pretty much fucked. The kid i'm tutoring is pretty bright, he just has to be taught hte material; so it should all work out pretty well.
Skiba and I are gonna run a mile tomorrow they play basketball at the HPER. Wooo! We'll pick up some chicks playing volleyball.
Ok...homework time.....i'm going to poop first
Adam
On 2004-10-08 at 10/08/2004 01:44:00 AM...
Rocko's Modern Life is the fricken bestGrandpa Wolfe: "What are you ignorant, boy?"
Grandpa Wolfe: "Shut up beaver!"
Opposing bowling team: That's right! We quit the bowling league and joined a monastery. We've even taken a vow of silence. Whoops. Gotta go."
aaaaaaah
I ran about 4 1/2 miles today, then went to this Def Jam Fight For NY promotion at Ashton Mason. Got a bunch of free stickers, an EA sports poster, a free Def Jam t-shirt, and free pizza and pop. w00t
Then I played basketball from 10-11:30. woooooo 6 steals! Mos def my best defensive playing ever. Only made 2 shots though :(
Now I MUST rant about the retard in my CS class. Sorry bud, but you pissed me off yesterday.
I took notes:
He does not understand tail-recursion, or any algorithm for that matter.
This guy is slowing down the whole class.
and then working with this program (the program looks much better with proper spacing):
(define selection-sort
(lambda (ls)
(if (null? ls)
'()
(let ([smallest (find-min ls)])
(cons smallest
(selectoin-sort (remove-first smallest ls)))))))
to which he asked
"Isn't smallest bound to something outside of the 'let'?"
GODDAMMIT were you even listening to the first part of the lecture about "Scoping?" Were you even here last week, fucker? Maybe programming isn't for you.
I also don't like how he talks. He's got a voice pattern that bothers me immensly. I bet he's awkward and left-handed.
Adam
On 2004-10-06 at 10/06/2004 01:27:00 AM...
I saw an ad in the classifieds for an Algebra 2 tutor. I think I might call in.I think I could handle that.
thoughts?
On 2004-10-05 at 10/05/2004 02:05:00 AM...
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Acupicture2! updated with weekend pics!!!!
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Knowing that what sticks in people's minds the most from these online journal thingys is whatever is written towards the end, I'm going to write the most important stuff first.First off, I think sometimes I'm given more credit than I deserve. Let me explain what I mean (please note, I'm writing this very carefully inorder to be conherent. Don't misunderestimate me). I got a call last night from a very good friend of mine asking for some advice. He was very concerned that his girlfriend has a drinking problem, and he doesn't trust her drinking in college while he isn't there to protect her.
I'm gonna interrupt myself here. Honestly, I was very flattered that my friend came to me asking for advice. But the thing is, I really am not good in the area of relationships. I mean, what serious relationships have I hever had? I think everything I know about relationships I learned from Full House and the Beatles. Physics comes to mind with the Ideal Gas Laws. Those laws really only work in closed systems, and it's all very predictable. I'm pretty sure things aren't really like that. On another note, I kinda went against myself by even offering anything to my friend. I remember making a conscious decision in 7th grade to stay out of other people's relationships (don't ask). But like I said, he's a very good friend of mine and I really wanted to help.
Ok....so I told my friend to just explain how he felt to his girlfriend, to say he's concerned with the bad side-effects of drinking, especially when you drink rather than study, as he told me. Then I told him that he might be being a little overprotective. His girlfriend's in college, and drinking is typical behavior. I told him ultimatly he cannot control what she does on her own. I told him to not just start up a conversation with that topic, to kinda work his way into it. I also told him to use "I" statements rather than "you" statements (e.g. "I'm worried about all this." rather than "You shouldn't do this.") He seemed to understand, and we ended up just chatting for a good half hour or so.
That was last night. Well tonight I was on AIM and his girlfriend IM'd me saying something like "(name) is talking to me weird" and then the one to whom i talked to last night IM'd me saying "adam help." Well, shit, is what I thought. What have I gotten myself into. I didn't want to be in the middle of a couple's argument/fight/discussion...whatever it was. So rather than try and pull off the ol' talking to both sides at the same time trick, I just signed off. Then I turned off my cell phone. From then on I wanted nothing to do with any of it. None of my business. I haven't gotten on AIM or turned on my cell phone yet. It's been about 4 hours.
I really hope I didn't fuck something up. They're both really really good friends of mine, and I really do think they make a great couple. I just hope they can understand each other and manage to get through this. It would be stupid for shit to happen over this. But I do believe they will work it all out.
Alright, got that off my chest.
In case anyone was wondering how I think about what to write here (probably not, cos nobody reads this damn thing), it works something like this. Every few days something significant happens in my life; significant enough that I want to write about it. What was it today? No, not what's written above, but soemthing that happened on my way to Spanish.
I was leaving Penn Station (mmmmmmm...) on my way to Spanish, and was carrying my backpack with both sleeves over my shoulders and a cup of water in my left hand. I wanted to get my mp3 player from the front pocket of my backpack, so without thinking my cup of water switched over to my right hand. I then pulled my left arm through the backpack sleeve and swung the backpack around my right side so I could reach the front of it. What fascinated me was how automatic the whole process was. If I 'm walking and need something from my backpack like that, I naturally swing it to the right. Somehow I unconsciously (woo two times in one post) knew that in order to swing it the naturally right way, I had to switch with hand was holding my water. I know, this is silly; but it got me thinking about how amazing the human brain is. There was no thinking through, there was no though process that I could directly map in my brain, it was completely automatic. We talked a little bit about the amazing capability of the human brain in my linguistics class. The teacher said that human language is a constant flow of sound coming from our mouths, and there is no separation between words; yet the human brain is able to accept the sound and break it down into separate and distanct words, even syllables, and interpret into what I think he called "Mind-speak" or "Think-speak," I can't remember which one. But anyway, the human brain remarkably does it automatically.
Anyway that's what I wanted to write about.
Caitlin and Kurtis came and visited me this weekend which was great! I love seeing those two. You can see pictures from the weekend on Acupicture2! I hope they come again, since I'm never going to Purdue unless I get a car. But I am going home in 2 weeks, which I'm really looking foward to. I haven't been home or seen my parents since they left me here. Plus, I need more underwear.
Also, tonight I made a basketball goal out of a lambshade. Yeah, I started my CS homework, but then I became fascinated by the small ball Caitlin found on the road, and I started bouncing it off the walls and stuff. Then I looked around looking for something to make a goal out of. First I tried a water pitcher, but that didn't work at all. Then I found the lampshade and the rest was magic.
Yeah, another long post. You don't have to read it all, though if you're reading this you probably already have.
adam
On 2004-10-01 at 10/01/2004 03:53:00 PM...
I think Friday immediately after my last class is my favorite time of the week.Yes, it is.
As I was walking back to my dorm from my final class, I was in an especially good mood. I had a slight and and at times large grin on my face, my head was up, I was enjoying the beautiful campus...and I was happy. This is the second week in a row I've noticed my enjoyableness on a Friday afternoon.
I'm not sure exactly what spurred it. Maybe it's because classes are done and it's the weekend. Maybe it's because I just got out of my CS lab where I successfully practiced the skill that eventually will land me a job. Maybe it's because I don't have to work this weekend, and I have very very very little homework. Maybe it's because I was listening to Modest Mouse. Maybe it's because Caitlin and Kurtis are coming to see me and party tomorrow. Or maybe, just maybe, it's because it was a little chilly this morning, and I wore my blue sweatshirt for the first time this season, and damn I look sexy wearing that blue sweatshirt unzipped with my Ben Kweller shirt underneeth.
For whatever reason, I had a great walk home. And.....that's it
so long
Adam
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My love-hate relationship with work continues...Maybe what I hate about it is just the dishroom, which I've only done on the weekends, every other weekend at that. Tuesday I worked the grill and the donut place. I've done the grill several times, and it's more enjoyable when you know what you're doing. That way you know when it's ok to stand around and chat. The donut place wasn't too bad either. It was pretty slow, so there was time to stand around and chat. Alright so what if I only like working if I'm not working. Today (thursday, technically yesterday) I worked the Wok, and it was fine. So all-in-all it's not THAT bad of a job, just the dishes...goddamn
Ok, enough complaining about work. I hate writing about it, but yet I continue...blah
I meant to write something here on Wednesday. That day totally sucked. First, I was woken up by a phone call from the office of voting in Madison County with a question about my absentee vote application form. My mom told me to put my Bloomington address as my place of residence, and not put anything for the mailing address. Well, that's wrong cos that means a change in residence, which I'm not ready for :) That wasn't the crappy part. What sucked was they called at 10:15, and I was supposed to be at math class at 10. So yeah, I over slept. Forgot to set my alarm. First time. Suckage!
So rather than go to class half hour late, I decided to do some homework in my room first. I did my calculus, then took my online quiz for linguistics. That quiz totally blew. Well, not totally. But enough to piss me off. The first 2 quizzes were verbatim from the powerpoints, but this one was nothing like that. I missed 3 out of 11. fuh
Wednesday wasn't all bad. Spanish is starting to become enjoyable. Lots of class interaction. We got our first test over with, so I think everyone's more confident with speaking. Also, the teacher is very cool. She has no problem at all with finishing early :)
Tonight (thursday) was the presidential debate. That was fun. I watched it a lot of the people of my floor in our lounge, which was great. But what was greater was the free pizza thanks to the floor funds. yeah buddy free food.
About the debate, I thouht it was interesting. I guess this debate only concerned foreign policy. As far as what was discussed, I'd have to say that for now, I'm voting for Kerry. I remember when we started to focus on Iraq, I kept thinking "No, wait until we find wmds." I saw that case the same way as domestic crimes, that whole "guilty until proven innocent" thing. Yes, Hussein did terrible things in the past, but we had inspectors searching for what he was doing now. Why couldn't we wait until they were finished? I kept thinking what the world would think of the U.S. if we went attacked Iraq and there weren't actually weapons. Also, I remember how the UN didn't support us attacking. I think that's an important issue. On top of that, something about Bush seems dishonest. Now, I don't know if these are my own opinions or I've been watching too much of the Daily Show, but for now, I'm definitely voting for Kerry. This doesn't mean I'm gonna go try and make everyone that way. It doesn't mean I'm a democrat. It doesn't mean I'm gonna stick that John Kerry bumper sticker I got in front of Ballentine on my car. It also doesn't mean I have a car, but anyway. That's enough politics for me, and that's probably the most you'll ever get out of me.
I was never good at analyzing things
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