Tag: General

When something doesn’t go your way, or when something happens that you wish had not happened, what do you do? How do you handle it? I had something happen today and I still cannot decide if the way I acted was right or not. I did what I normally do and now I can just reflect on it.
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For some reason I have been getting asked a lot recently if I would consider leaving Seattle after graduation to try to find a job elsewhere. I don’t know why this is coming up a lot right now, maybe because I am a year from my degree in Informatics, but it just makes me think about why I answer the same thing every time. I am always responding with “I want to stay in Seattle. I have traveled half way across the country once and I’d like to not do that again.”
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For the first two years that I attended school at UW I must say that I didn’t have much, if any, drama at all. But, for some reason, it seems like recently I have been causing drama between myself and some, well really one, of my friends. I honestly don�t mean to do this to people, but sometimes it just happens and I snap. Similar to what happened last night. I won�t go into details, since they don�t matter at this point, but I just snapped at one of my better friends. Something just came over me, that I can�t really explain, and I just went off.

Part of it was that I was taken back by what was said to me, but at the same time I should know better than to flip out like this to someone whom I care for. I should be a bigger man than that. But, I just fell apart and let the words get to me. I mean, what was said was not to be taken the way it was, but I got really offended by it and I just lost it. I hurt her, and I didn�t mean to at all.

Which, after it happened, made me think. Do I really know how much I affect people? I don�t really think I have the slightest idea. I am always putting myself behind other people and trying to put them before me, but at the same time I don�t see the effect that I have on other people. Even when you tell me, I probably will not believe you. So, it is hard for me to hear that I make a difference in someone else�s life. I just don�t see how I could. Personally I don�t see what I do that makes me stand out from the next guy. I just go about my business and just try to be me.

If you have been around me the past few days you have probably noticed that I have been a little saucy with my remarks. Why this is happening is probably complicated and difficult to explain, but I guess all I can do is just say what I have to say.
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I�m sitting here at work, bored off of my mind with nothing to do for the remainder of my shift. Yesterday was an eating extravaganza with Jamie making her and myself lunch and me making dinner for Jula and D. It was a great day for fooding. It was also a good day because I got my project grade back for CSE and got that all figured out. Catalyst messed up my project, but after talking to the TA it all got worked out and I did very, very well.

But, like usual for me now I am busy a lot of the time. I am being asked by people to do stuff, but I am never available, which sucks. I have people that I NEED to go hang out with, but I don’t have the time to. They know who they are and I plan to meet up with them before the quarter is over.

I just sit and think about how I would have never said that last statement when I was a freshman. I was always not busy and I had all of the time in the world. I was new to Washington and UW and I had did not have very many friends since leaving Minnesota. So, needless to say I did not get out much, or if I was asked to go out I just didn’t. I don’t know why, but I just didn’t. So, things have kind of done a complete 180 for me in the past two years and it has been for the better. School might be taking up a lot of my time, but that is ok, because that is what I am here to do. However it is nice to get out with friends and just chill for a while.