Blue Moon

Damn. A lot has happened this year. I graduated from college and began my adventures as a Math grad student. I took the chance and invited my father to my graduation, and now we keep in touch even though it's primarily in texts. My family has gone from the big house in Oro Valley to our separate apartments. My mom has been confronted with another cancer scare that we won't know more about until March. I've seen a number of amazing movies, and I dabbled more in my guitar. I wrote a song for my gen ed Music class. I wrote a tune to words I wrote 5 years ago. I determined which grad school to go to in the only way that made sense to me ("Hunting Season"), and for most of the year I've been overstressed and busy with school. But it's good. For me, 2009 was a pretty good year. I hope the next year brings a lot more blog posts from me, as well as the freedom and creativity to be an awesome friend and student. Happy New Year, Mitchy.

It's been a while

Not really sure what to put up here anymore. Really haven't updated any of my blog sites lately. I suppose Twitter has taken the helm for posting the minutiae (how do you pronounce that, my-nooshy?) of goings-on, but I do feel like I've been lazy on this front, too.

Midterms were brutal. I had an emo-moment, but then it passed and I got over it. I rocked one, fared average on the other, and tanked the third. I suppose I can't complain about it too much. I need to work on my group's lab report. We have some data that verifies findings in other papers, o I guess that's worth noting. Though some of our ideas aren't exactly flushed out. We need to find more theory besides dimensional analysis.

I went to the UofA football game with my dad's family this past weekend. It went well, I think. The UofA won by a landslide. It also helped that it was homecoming weekend. But all in all I think I've seen maybe 5 football games in my entire life? I don't know. I had fun at the UofA game, but it's such a time investment, which is why I hardly ever went to any games. I find that I'm starting to care a little bit more sports, but it comes and goes in phases.

The other math folk here are pretty cool. I like to think we 10 full-time first year's are getting along well. I don't hang out with all of them on a regular basis, but I try and hang out with them in different ways. I've met a couple of the second and third years, and they seem to have gotten in the swing of things. I think now the department is mostly 1-3rd years. Craziness.

Though school has kept me busy from doing other things. I need to go see more movie. I need to finish playing video games I bought a year ago (I'm looking at you, Okami! I might just have to restart since I don't even remember where I left off). Though I have been down to 4th Avenue and University Blvd. a lot more than as an undergrad (I've also consumed a lot more bagels and tea), and that's been pretty good. I opted to not drive after 3 beers last week. I'm a pansy when it comes to drinking, I know, but I never want to get as drunk as at my 21st birthday party (I thought the movie S.W.A.T. with Collin Ferrel was a f****in masterpiece).

I'm survivin' on the math front. I'm doing all right on the family front. My cousin wants to buy a house, but given his massive student loans and the still rough market, no one will give him a loan. So he's gonna sell the truck he bought last year for almost no loss (I'll miss you, Taco the Tacoma!) and put a dent in those loans. It makes me glad in that sense that I don't have any loans to worry about. Yet.

When is the cable bill due?

(Goes and pays cable bill)

Isn't the internet amazing?

So if I don't see you before I see you, you know where to find me. In the red and white striped sweatshirt and the sockcap.

Ten Years in Tucson

So amid all the rush of grad school, a pretty big milestone came and went. It was 10 years this past summer that I've been here in Tucson. 10 years since I moved out of Douglas and tried to make something of myself.

I've seen a handful of people I knew from Douglas here at the UofA. And a few more I've found on stuff like Facebook, but it's a pretty small proportion. Interestingly enough, most of the people up here are in Engineering. I even saw one of them today heading back to my car. (Looks at his Facebook) Oh cool he's in education. Gonna be a teacher like both his parents. That's cool. My mom actually had his parents as teachers when she was in middle school. Go figure.

But it doesn't seem like that long ago when I lived across the street from my middle school, and then I moved to a nearby apartment complex but it was out of their jurisdiction (I was supposed to transfer to the artier middle school nearby, but I don't know what they did but I managed to stay). Then of course I got into MATHCOUNTS, and then University High, and then the UofA Honors College (and I did graduate with honors, which is apparently not too common), and now grad school. Dang.

I should be working on my analysis homework. But I don't wanna! But it's due in the morning... I should.