Also consider that I was never one to start with.
After
this post showed up on facebook I realized that I couldn't completely answer the question posted. So, to refresh my memory, I tried looking for the latest and greatest version of the Soup Can Lab circa 02 October 2009. I was filled with feelings of fondness for my lab group as I unsuccessfully searched for v.1.6.2. Even my newest one has
//new stuff here between two paragraphs - modified at 10:15 the day it was due!
Other stuff I found:
- Angelinos threatening to bash in Zhang's kneecaps
- A load of obsolete phone numbers
- The greatest fudge factory ever
- Teach yourself C++ in 21 days!
- Five corrupted XML generated by msgshit (wtf?)
- Two passworded zip files (AES) including a whole installation of Pidgin
- Three papers on fluxgate magnetometry
- "marryme.xls", "Hoom! Maps and Walking Directions.mht", "1 Orcs Ambush The Fellowship.doc"
I feel slightly better about being mildly unemployable as a civil coop student by virtue of lacking a driver's licence.
Is it odd that my dream job would be either a film directer a la Peter Jackson, or the TTC Commissioner? They were playing the extended versions of the
Lord of the Rings in POETS today. The extended versions. Watching them brings back as many good memories as trying to understand year-old cryptic txt files. Or deciphering my own handwriting c. 2006, or rather printing in the roughest sense of the word, until maybe 2008.
The Lord of the Rings was my very first fandom. I watched the Fellowship of the Ring during March Break 2003, where my closest friend then threatened not to f-forward the "kissy face scenes" as punishment for some forgotten wrong. Probably stealing the wireless keyboard (I know I did that once). The Two Towers was watched during August 2003, two days after the DVD was released (still don't know how she held out that long). She shipped Eowyn/Aragorn. I liked canon better. Then the Return of the King was released in theaters December 2003. I was very impressed then. I'm still very impressed.
Around 2008 I read the Frodo Franchise in the Woodside Square TPL branch. Fanfiction was mentioned. Life was never the same since, partially because
this was the first site that I came across.
Well, here we are.
The point of all that is that I'm having trouble understanding what I wrote a year ago. It's a total
Flowers for Algernon time of life, on a lesser scale. Well, all great work is done before age 30. That's why politicians are all ancient.
Also,
my wallpaper is awesome. I liked my
old wallpaper too, but it was a little too orange for my taste.
This one was too blue. As a matter of principle, I don't use windows wallpapers, but
this one is also quite nice.
I don't think I'll ever have a chance to learn crap as broadly, in depth, and as independently as I did in AP Physics C. Not all in one course, anyways. The one consolation is that at the time, I was holding three courses. Also, fencing is not as useless as Jim Kirk thinks it to be. Though it is admittedly very, very French. It is by far the frenchiest sport I can think of right now, because it is 2AM and I am not thinking.
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