Blabbity-bloo

Wow, it's been nearly a month since my last post, so chances are the four people that look at my blog have given up on me. And unfortunately, I still don't have a lot to write about.

There's been a lot of stuff going on, but it's at an overload sort of point so that it's hard to come up with individual points...blah.

Let's see, my brother is getting married on Saturday, so that'll be fun (and if you know me, you'll know that's sarcasm). I am looking forward to showing off my new suit though...

...I had a long very boring story about buying the suit and some very comfortable dress shoes. It turns out that one of the reasons that the dress shoes were so comfortable was that the salesman had given me the wrong size - by about 3 sizes; the shoes were so big and roomy, that it was like walking barefoot. The worst thing was that I didn't even notice. When I went back to pick up my suit after the alterations, I intended to buy another pair of the shoes, but in brown. The sales woman that was there was practically appalled that I had been wearing these clearly overlarge shoes for two weeks.

(Even the summary of that story was boring, shit!)

School is bogging me down - ever day I have more to do than I can possibly do - so I end up half-assing a lot of it. Fortunately (or unfortunately maybe) I can half-ass most things and still get A's which seems to encourage me to do so. Sometimes I worry that I'm not really all that intelligent; that I'm just very good at convincing people that I am. People are sometimes impressed by the challenging books that I usually choose to read - though that may not be reflected on my Book page lately - but really, am I choosing those books because I enjoy them or get something out of them, or am I choosing them because I'm a pretentious asshole? If I list my favorite authors the list would include: Pynchon, Delillo, Roth, Rushdie, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Faulkner, and other such "literary" types. On the other hand, what authors do I read most voraciously? Stephen King, John Irving, Dan Simmons, Irvine Welsh, J.K. Rowling, et cetera.

Now, I'm not saying that that second list of authors are bad writers, just that they aren't exactly challenging in the same way that the authors in the first list are.

Ok, enough of that...I've got to get back to reading about systems architecture, model-view-controller design, and such.

With any luck, it won't be a month before my next post.

(maybe I'll even post some pictures from the wedding, won't that be fun)