I’ve been working on the site pretty much all day. The individual article page should be finished now, and I cleaned up a lot of the stuff on the back end. I’m still not done by a long shot, but I feel pretty good about how things are going. With any luck, I’ll be able to continue this trend and finish things up before classes start next week. I really need to rewrite the “about” page, as it’s outdated and poorly written, and I’m going to do a style guide as well. I’m sure I’ll think of other things that need to be done, too, and I’ll deal with those as they come up.
I thought what I’d do tonight is do a month-by-month recap of what’s happened between my last real post and now. There were definitely things I wanted to post about during that span, but I somehow convinced myself that I didn’t have time to do it, so I’m going to try to remember it all now. Hopefully, this will be a one-time thing, and all future events will be recorded in a timely fashion.
Originally, the plan was to post the full recap in one fell swoop, but it ended up being three pages in Word, so I decided to post everything up to October tonight and save the rest for tomorrow. I’m hoping this will help me start some kind of routine here. We’ll see how that works out.
August
On July 20th, I made the following statement:
Michelle comes out here in less than a month. My pledge to update [semi-]regularly may have to be put on hold for the two weeks she’s here.
Well, as you can see, that proved very true. We had a wonderful two weeks together, after which I lived through probably the most stressful two months or so of my entire life.
September
The day after Michelle’s flight back, I started work back at Target, and the day after that, I started classes at Queens College. My schedule for the semester consisted of 7 hours of classes on Monday and Wednesday wrapped in an hour’s car ride and a three-hour class on Friday. My work schedule was 9-5 at work the other four days of the week. Needless to say, this very quickly took a toll on me, and I forgot what it meant to get a good night’s sleep—or anything more than a few hours a night, really.
The month wasn’t all terrible, though. I saw Staind and Three Days Grace in Philadelphia, and although the ride there and back was horrible (to the point where I swore I wouldn’t drive outside of New York for at least a year), the show was pretty awesome. I’m sure a lot of you don’t like either of those bands very much, but it was the second time I’ve seen Three Days Grace live, and they put on one hell of a show. Staind then topped them by putting on what I can only assume was one of the most amazing live shows ever.
My cousin Heather got married on the 23rd; the ceremony was very nice (and also very short), the reception was fairly insane (my family knows how to have a good time, especially when there’s an open bar involved), and it was great to see my cousin get married to such a good guy. Jeff, you may not be blood, but you’re family forever.
October
October was, in a word, hell. All my classes started piling work on at the time same, work continued to be terrible, I continued to get very little sleep, and the emotional drain soon overtook the physical drain I was going through. I began counting the days until the semester was over, but doing so didn’t help any; it only served to reinforce how long the semester was. I did get accepted to Post as a transfer student, though, which was one small glimmer of hope. Oh yeah, and the Cardinals knocked the Mets out of the playoffs. Boo. I was pretty disappointed about it, but most of the team should be back next year, and I’m pretty confident that they’ll be in the hunt again come the 2007 playoffs. Enough of October, nothing noteworthy happened.
Tune in tomorrow for the stunning conclusion to my year.
Posted on 16 January 2007 | [1]
