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A busy busy me
Oct. 16th, 2005 03:28 pmToday has been a very productive day as far as I'm concerned. I've accomplished scanning a book to help with my Anthropology paper while reading a book for History, worked on and finished the introduction for said Anthropology paper, and I read the material (wmost of hich I was already familiar with) for tomorrow's CS class on arrays and classes in C++. Actually, I was suppose to have read the array stuff earlier, I just forgot to check the calendar and so only found out about it when I checked last night. It doesn't matter too much, though; I'm familiar with array syntax in C++ already. It's somewhat odd to me that the course didn't start out teaching classes, since I thought that was one of the most powerful aspects about the C++ language in and of itself, (the ability to create classes and call their objects; Object Oriented Programming, OOP for short), but I'm sure the course has its reasond for being taught as it is.
Other than that, not too much is going on. Yesterday wasn't too exciting really. I went home for awhile, did some reading for class, spent some time outside with my family, and generally just relaxed. Liv also came with me, and was glad to be able to lay outside on the deck and play in the yard. Speaking of Liv, yesterday I received a smaller harness body in the mail from Guiding Eyes that I had called about wanting earlier in the week, (Tuesday maybe). Anyway, what with all the crap I've had to deal with from FS, I was really happy to get that yesterday. I hadn't heard back, and so didn't know if I would be called back this week or what, but then I saw the package in the mail. I really do think of some of the people at GEB as extended family, and I was really glad to be able to go to the walkathon last weekend and catch up with many of them. I know I haven't written about that yet, and I plan to, maybe even tonight; that entry will most likely be backdated.
I don't know why, but lately I've been feeling like I'm not getting anywhere with school. Yeah, sure, I complete assignments and take tests, but what is that doing for me really? Sometimes I think I would feel like I was getting somewhere if I actually had a job and made money. I don't know, maybe I'm just sick of school. I haven't had anything to really challenge me lately, and I'm sick of not having the tools readily accessible to me to complete assignments, mainly programming-related. I fear that if something doesn't stand out soon that makes me realize I actually am getting anywhere with what I'm doing, it will drive me crazy. It's hard when you think you know what you want to do with your life, but you have no idea really of how to go about doing it. It's also sometimes frustrating when you have to work what seems like ten times as hard just to get a simple trivial assignment done that might take your sighted peers a half hour to get done. It's weird, when I was little, my disability didn't stand out as much, but now that I'm getting older, taking on more responsibilities, the fact that I can't see plays more of a role, is sometimes more of an issue. Sometimes I can go about what I'm doing without even a thought, and it's awesome, but other times I have to remember that little albeit true and unescapable fact and then try to find ways around doing whatever it is so that I can get it done without too much difficulty. Perhaps that's just me, but I'm thinking not.
I really hope I'm not getting sick. I've felt kind of blah and congested all day, and it isn't too fun. Also, the weather is getting colder, what's up with that? I realize it's fall, but I like the warm weather and wish it could stay around a little longer.
As I have nothing else really to write, I'll end this and go get some more reading done. I'll update later.
Other than that, not too much is going on. Yesterday wasn't too exciting really. I went home for awhile, did some reading for class, spent some time outside with my family, and generally just relaxed. Liv also came with me, and was glad to be able to lay outside on the deck and play in the yard. Speaking of Liv, yesterday I received a smaller harness body in the mail from Guiding Eyes that I had called about wanting earlier in the week, (Tuesday maybe). Anyway, what with all the crap I've had to deal with from FS, I was really happy to get that yesterday. I hadn't heard back, and so didn't know if I would be called back this week or what, but then I saw the package in the mail. I really do think of some of the people at GEB as extended family, and I was really glad to be able to go to the walkathon last weekend and catch up with many of them. I know I haven't written about that yet, and I plan to, maybe even tonight; that entry will most likely be backdated.
I don't know why, but lately I've been feeling like I'm not getting anywhere with school. Yeah, sure, I complete assignments and take tests, but what is that doing for me really? Sometimes I think I would feel like I was getting somewhere if I actually had a job and made money. I don't know, maybe I'm just sick of school. I haven't had anything to really challenge me lately, and I'm sick of not having the tools readily accessible to me to complete assignments, mainly programming-related. I fear that if something doesn't stand out soon that makes me realize I actually am getting anywhere with what I'm doing, it will drive me crazy. It's hard when you think you know what you want to do with your life, but you have no idea really of how to go about doing it. It's also sometimes frustrating when you have to work what seems like ten times as hard just to get a simple trivial assignment done that might take your sighted peers a half hour to get done. It's weird, when I was little, my disability didn't stand out as much, but now that I'm getting older, taking on more responsibilities, the fact that I can't see plays more of a role, is sometimes more of an issue. Sometimes I can go about what I'm doing without even a thought, and it's awesome, but other times I have to remember that little albeit true and unescapable fact and then try to find ways around doing whatever it is so that I can get it done without too much difficulty. Perhaps that's just me, but I'm thinking not.
I really hope I'm not getting sick. I've felt kind of blah and congested all day, and it isn't too fun. Also, the weather is getting colder, what's up with that? I realize it's fall, but I like the warm weather and wish it could stay around a little longer.
As I have nothing else really to write, I'll end this and go get some more reading done. I'll update later.
